Developing a cancer drug costs up to $5 billion, takes 15 to 20 years, and has a 4% success rate. PharosAI is building multimodal, AI-ready cancer datasets to change those numbers. Technical Director Adrian La Porta speaks with Dr Lucie Burgess and Dr Emma Colliver about what that means – for researchers, for patients, and for the NHS.

AI is already accelerating drug discovery. The question nobody has fully answered yet is what that means for manufacturing. Co-founder Martin Wood and Technical Director Adrian La Porta explore the assumptions, the bottlenecks, and the much bigger questions sitting underneath – ahead of Bryden Wood's Accelerate event on AI in drug manufacturing.

Professor John Dyson asks what it means to be human at a moment when AI is reshaping how we work, decide, and collaborate – drawing on philosophy, neuroscience, and a walk in the woods to argue that curiosity, ethics, and practical reasoning matter more now than ever.

The UK housing stock is inefficient, poorly distributed, and increasingly unfit for a climate that is now both cold and hot. Co-founder Martin Wood, Director of Sustainability Pablo Gugel, and co-Head of Sustainability Helen Hough examine what climate resilience in UK housing actually requires – and who is responsible for delivering it.

The UK's 10-year industrial strategy is a genuine attempt at stability and systems thinking. But an industrial strategy is not the same as an industrialisation strategy. Professor John Dyson, Adrian La Porta and Martin Wood examine what it gets right, what it leaves out, and what actually needs to change.

Electrification is the headline story of the energy transition. But iron, steel, cement, chemicals, and aviation are a different problem entirely. Co-founder Martin Wood and Technical Director Adrian La Porta examine the sectors where the obvious solutions don't apply, and what that means for policy, investment, and delivery.

The market for advanced nuclear has been building for years. What's changed is the demand signal. Jaimie Johnston MBE sits down with Jon Guidroz, SVP at Aalo Atomics, to explore why the conditions for modular nuclear deployment may finally be coming together – and what that means for the energy transition.

Ukraine faces a reconstruction challenge unlike any other: vast in scale, urgent in need, and reduced in workforce. Directors Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood explore what reconstruction by design – rather than by necessity – could look like, and what the construction industry has to offer.

When the lights went out across Spain and Portugal in April 2025, it exposed something the energy debate had been circling for years. Bryden Wood co-founder Martin Wood, Technical Director Adrian La Porta and Professor John Dyson examine what the grid really needs – and why cost alone is the wrong measure.

Gigafactories are among the most complex and time-critical buildings in the world. Adam Jordan, Bryden Wood's Asia-Pacific Lead, examines how DfMA can reduce cost and programme by 30% or more – and why getting the design right before prefabricating anything is the critical first step.

We're not short of new technologies. We're short of the ability to deploy them at the speed the world needs. Bryden Wood co-founder Martin Wood, Professor John Dyson, Adrian La Porta and colleagues introduce Accelerate – a programme for convening the people who can close the gap between research and realisation.

Personal guilt about climate change is understandable but insufficient. Professor John Dyson argues that what this moment demands is not hair shirts but the kind of leadership that built Spitfires in a Newbury carpentry workshop – ambition, ingenuity, and the determination to do things that have not been done before.

From HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Stuart Russell's Reith Lectures, Professor John Dyson has been thinking about artificial intelligence for decades. In this blog he argues that the ethical principles required to keep AI safe are exactly the same principles that Design to Value has always applied to projects.

Curiosity, argues Professor John Dyson, is the escape from the black-and-white thinking that keeps industries stuck. In this blog, he traces a line from the therapy room to synthetic aviation fuel – and arrives at a sobering but energising calculation about the scale of the fourth industrial revolution.