Open Philanthropy Biosecurity Scholarships (2022)

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Open Philanthropy recommended a total of approximately $2,388,991 to enable individuals in the early stages of their careers to pursue work and study related to global catastrophic biological risks.[1]This is an estimate because of uncertainty around tuition costs and currency exchange rates in future years. This number may be updated as costs are finalized. We sought the majority of applications for this funding here.

Recipients include:

  • Toby Bonvoisin ⁠— PhD program in Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford
  • Katherine Budeski ⁠— Master of Science in Modelling for Global Health at the University of Oxford
  • Willow Crombie ⁠— self-study on the analysis of metagenomic data
  • Katherine Dammer ⁠— Master’s in Security Studies at Georgetown University
  • Allen Drews ⁠— research on aerobiology and planetary protection at the University of Aberdeen
  • Dailin Gan — PhD in Statistics at the University of Notre Dame
  • Jonah Goldberg — PhD in Global Health at Harvard University
  • Zev Goldberg ⁠— Master’s in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Georgetown University
  • Simon Grimm ⁠— work on the Nucleic Acid Observatory
  • Elaine Jeon — Master of Public Health at Harvard University
  • Jun Young (Charlie) Jeong ⁠— Master’s in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University
  • Geetha Jeyapragasan — Master’s in Biosecurity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Antonia Juelich ⁠— postdoctoral research on bioterrorism in the International Security Program at Harvard University
  • Qian (Sindy) Li — self-study on biosecurity
  • Andrew Morgan — Graduate certificate in Biodefence at George Mason University
  • Geoffrey Otim ⁠— development of SynBio Africa
  • Alessandra Peters ⁠— self-study on biosecurity
  • James Petrie — self-study and career planning related to biosecurity
  • Koen Schoenmakers ⁠— internship with Megan Palmer at Stanford University
  • Cass Springer ⁠— development and prototyping for a new kind of respirator
  • Caitlin Walker — PhD in Health Security at Johns Hopkins University
  • Alex Zhu — Master of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University

This falls within our focus area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.

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↑1 This is an estimate because of uncertainty around tuition costs and currency exchange rates in future years. This number may be updated as costs are finalized.