Early-Career Funding for GCBRs — Scholarship Support (2019-2020)

Organization:
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Award Date:
07/2020
Amount:
$1,365,037
Purpose:
To support work and study related to global catastrophic biological risks.

Open Philanthropy recommended a total of approximately $1,365,037 in flexible support to enable early-career people to pursue work and study related to global catastrophic biological risks. Open Philanthropy sought applications for this funding here. Recipients include:

  • Janvi Ahuja, 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
  • 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
  • James Wagstaff, chemistry research
  • Brian Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This falls within Open Philanthropy's focus area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.

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