Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €374,000 (approximately $405,453 at the time of conversion) to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to support a survey on the prevalence of non-competes in a select number of countries.
This falls within our work on global health and wellbeing.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $22,500 to the Good Food Institute Asia Pacific to support their work to identify research gaps in improving the nutritional profile of alternative proteins, as well as to share these findings publicly.
This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in alternatives to animal products.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $914,522 over two years to La Trobe University to support research on the development of a treatment for pediatric sepsis, led by Associate Professor Hamsa Puthalakath.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,050,000 over two years to the University of Dundee to support research and development on scaling up production of the surface glycan of the Group A streptococcus (GAS) bacteria for use as a potential vaccine component. This work will be led by Dr. Helge Dorfmueller and could advance efforts to create an effective vaccine against GAS infections, for which no vaccine currently exists.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,937,000 to Stanford University to support research to develop a benchmark for the cybersecurity capabilities of large language model (LLM) agents, led by Dr. Percy Liang.
This grant was funded via a request for proposals for projects benchmarking LLM agents on consequential real-world tasks and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €202,500 (approximately $220,158 at the time of conversion) to Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam to support research on modeling the potential public health impact and cost-effectiveness of mass drug administration of emodepside to combat soil-transmitted helminths. The project will be led by Dr. Luc E. Coffeng.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $300,000 to Madre Brava to support its work to negotiate commitments from food retailers to sell more alternative protein products in place of animal meat products.
This follows our June 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in alternatives to animal products.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $70,000 to Jennifer Lin to support the production of a publicly available report investigating whether large language models (LLMs) have the cognitive ability of model-based planning.
This grant was funded via a request for proposals for projects studying and forecasting the real-world impacts of systems built from LLMs and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $150,000 to the Centre for Aquaculture Progress to support its work on farmed fish welfare in Europe.
This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in fish welfare.
To learn more about new approaches and strategies, we sometimes make “experimental grants”, which involve less vetting than our other grants. This is an experimental grant.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $696,742 over two years to the WITS Health Consortium to support preclinical development and testing of a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, led by Dr. Kristie Bloom.
The approach to the vaccine follows a 2022 study by Musvosvi et al. that identified four TB proteins associated with natural clearance of the infection. The proposed research aims to support preclinical analysis of these four proteins in human cell and mouse assays to evaluate their potential as vaccine candidates. This is one of three grants we’re making to support this work.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.