Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2019-2020)
Organization Name
Award Date
7/2020
Grant Amount
$1,402,330
Purpose
To support work and study related to global catastrophic biological risks.
Topic (focus area)
Grant investigator: Andrew Snyder-Beattie
This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Scholarship recipients also reviewed the page prior to publication.
Open Philanthropy recommended a total of approximately $1,402,330 in flexible support to enable early-career people to pursue work and study related to global catastrophic biological risks. We sought the majority of applications for this funding here. Recipients include:
- Janvi Ahuja, Biological Weapons Convention, the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs, and the University of Oxford
- Richard Armitage, University of Nottingham
- Sam Chorlton, surveillance systems project
- Arielle D’Souza, University of Oxford
- Edward Elliot, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
- Dana Gretton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Toby McMaster, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Darius Meißner, Biological Weapons Convention and the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs
- Alexander Norman, University of Oxford
- Joseph O’Neill, synthetic biology project
- Phil Palmer, University of Cambridge
- Amanda Rojek, Royal Melbourne Hospital
- Sophie Rose, Johns Hopkins University
- Jacob Swett, University of Oxford
- James Wagstaff, chemistry research
- Brian Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This falls within our focus area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.