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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
January 2024
Grant Title
University of California, Los Angeles – Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (2023)
Organization Name
University of California, Los Angeles
Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 2024
April 2019
Grant Title
University of California, Los Angeles — Epigenetic Clock Research (Steve Horvath)
Organization Name
University of California, Los Angeles
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,368,300
Date
April 2019
September 2020
Grant Title
University of California, Los Angeles — Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (2020)
Organization Name
University of California, Los Angeles
Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
Amount
$2,250,000
Date
September 2020
November 2021
Grant Title
University of California, San Francisco Foundation — Reproductive Medicine Research
Organization Name
University of California, San Francisco
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$550,000
Date
November 2021
July 2023
Grant Title
University of California, San Francisco Foundation — Reproductive Medicine Research (2023)
Organization Name
University of California, San Francisco
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$200,000
Date
July 2023
April 2021
Grant Title
University of Cambridge — Machine Learning Research
Organization Name
University of Cambridge
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2021
September 2016
Grant Title
University of Cape Town — Geomagnetics Research
Organization Name
University of Cape Town
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$493,425
Date
September 2016
June 2022
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Chicago School of Existential Risk
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$207,000
Date
June 2022
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Research on Complementary AI
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2023
January 2022
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Research on Mobile Conditional Cash Transfers
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$1,602,868
Date
January 2022
April 2020
Grant Title
University of Colorado — COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment Experiments
Organization Name
University of Colorado
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2020
January 2022
Grant Title
University of Connecticut Health Center — Syphilis Vaccine Development
Organization Name
University of Connecticut Health Center
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$4,563,250
Date
January 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Effective Altruism Psychology Course
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$47,000
Date
June 2022
June 2023
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Preterm Birth RCT
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$344,973
Date
June 2023
October 2018
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Scholarship Program in Applied Animal Behavior and Animal Welfare
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$102,041
Date
October 2018
June 2023
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Syphilis Genome Sequencing
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$357,880
Date
June 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
University of Georgia — Malaria Research (2023)
Organization Name
University of Georgia
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$192,925
Date
January 2023
September 2022
Grant Title
University of Georgia — Malaria Vaccine Research
Organization Name
University of Georgia
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,205,820
Date
September 2022
December 2020
Grant Title
University of Glasgow — Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
University of Glasgow
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$109,552
Date
December 2020
October 2020
Grant Title
University of Glasgow — Malaria Prevention Research (Steven Sinkins)
Organization Name
University of Glasgow
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$3,175,000
Date
October 2020
November 2022
Grant Title
University of Helsinki — Travel Funding for Air Pollution Research
Organization Name
University of Helsinki
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$87,743
Date
November 2022
October 2023
Grant Title
University of Helsinki — Travel Funding for Air Pollution Research (2023)
Organization Name
University of Helsinki
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$109,000
Date
October 2023
April 2022
Grant Title
University of Illinois — Course Development Support (Ben Levinstein)
Organization Name
University of Illinois
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$58,141
Date
April 2022
March 2023
Grant Title
University of Illinois — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of Illinois
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
March 2023
January 2024
Grant Title
University of Illinois Foundation — LLM Hacking Benchmarks
Organization Name
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$800,000
Date
January 2024
August 2022
Grant Title
University of Maine — Biofilm-Resistant Catheters
Organization Name
University of Maine
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$500,000
Date
August 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (2023)
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$312,959
Date
April 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (September 2023)
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$286,000
Date
September 2023
December 2021
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowships
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$483,880
Date
December 2021
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Research on Neural Network Generalization
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2023
February 2022
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Course Development Support (Anna Edmonds)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,300
Date
February 2022
April 2020
Grant Title
University of Michigan — COVID-19 Protein Production (Aubree Gordon)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$348,000
Date
April 2020
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Research on Gamete Development (2023)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
May 2023
March 2019
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Research on Mammalian Gamete Development (2019)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
March 2019
February 2024
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Scalable Oversight Research
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2024
October 2018
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Support for David Manley
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$46,696
Date
October 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities — Nanomaterials Research (Claudia Schmidt-Dannert)
Organization Name
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$150,000
Date
December 2018
January 2020
Grant Title
University of Missouri — Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
University of Missouri
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$189,000
Date
January 2020
November 2020
Grant Title
University of New South Wales — In Vitro Fertilization Research (Robert Gilchrist)
Organization Name
University of New South Wales
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
November 2020
December 2022
Grant Title
University of Notre Dame — Biofilm-Resistant Catheters
Organization Name
University of Notre Dame
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$895,000
Date
December 2022
June 2017
Grant Title
University of Notre Dame — Nanopore Protein Sequencing (Gregory Timp)
Organization Name
University of Notre Dame
Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
Amount
$2,054,142
Date
June 2017
August 2021
Grant Title
University of Notre Dame — Nanopore Protein Sequencing (Gregory Timp) (2021)
Organization Name
University of Notre Dame
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,769,056
Date
August 2021
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Ottawa — Institute for Replication
Organization Name
University of Ottawa
Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$464,698
Date
May 2023
October 2019
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$41,800
Date
October 2019
October 2018
Grant Title
University of Oxford — D.Phil Support for Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$26,086
Date
October 2018
January 2023
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Genetic Engineering Attribution
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$40,000
Date
January 2023
April 2024
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Hepatitis C Challenge Model
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,353,450
Date
April 2024
November 2023
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Monoclonal Antibody Development for Malaria
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Global Health R&D
Amount
$300,000
Date
November 2023
February 2020