Adrian Woolfson

Adrian Woolfson was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was the Charles and Katherine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, and did his PhD and postdoctoral work with Nobel Prize winner César Milstein at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He is the founder and CEO of the genome design and synthesis company Genyro. He has published more than 170 scientific publications and is the author of the critically acclaimed: On the Future of Species (Bloomsbury and MIT Press), An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics (Duckworth Press), and Life Without Genes (HarperCollins and Flamingo). He is an Opinion writer for The Wall Street Journal and Science magazine and currently lives in San Francisco.