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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
May 2020
Grant Title
1Day Sooner — General Support (May 2020)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Gryphon Scientific — Empirical Biosafety Research
Organization Name
Gryphon Scientific
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Center for Population-Level Bioethics — General Support
Organization Name
Center for Population-Level Bioethics
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Harvard University — Biosecurity and Biosafety
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$315,000
Date
June 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2019-2020)
Organization Name
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,394,530
Date
July 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
Icosavax — COVID-19 Vaccine Development
Organization Name
Icosavax
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$6,500,000
Date
August 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Riboscience — COVID-19 Drug Research
Organization Name
Riboscience
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$210,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
AcceleratingHT — COVID-19 Response
Organization Name
AcceleratingHT
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Federation of American Scientists — International Science Advisory Body for Biosecurity
Organization Name
Federation of American Scientists
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$175,000
Date
September 2020
October 2020
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — DNA Synthesis Screening Methods
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$890,000
Date
October 2020
November 2020
Grant Title
Council on Strategic Risks — Biological Weapons Prevention (November 2020)
Organization Name
Council on Strategic Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,050,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title
Binx — COVID-19 Testing Platform
Organization Name
Binx
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title
Global Health Security Network — Global Health Security Conference
Organization Name
Global Health Security Network
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title
1Day Sooner — General Support (November 2020)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 2020
December 2020
Grant Title
Altruistic Technology Labs — Planning Grant
Organization Name
Altruistic Technology Labs
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
December 2020
January 2021
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2021)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,144,789
Date
January 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Immune Observatory — Single-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Modeling
Organization Name
Immune Observatory
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2021)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Strategic Lessons from COVID-19
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2021)
Organization Name
Tampere University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Duke University — COVID-19 Antiviral Studies (Timothy Haystead)
Organization Name
Duke University
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,355
Date
March 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (Jeffrey Glenn)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$610,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Georgia Tech — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (James Dahlman)
Organization Name
Georgia Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$882,000
Date
April 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Federation of American Scientists — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness Fellowship
Organization Name
Federation of American Scientists
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$480,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021