Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2021)
- Organization:
- Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
- Award Date:
- 01/2021
- Amount:
- $2,260,869
- Purpose:
- To support work and study related to global catastrophic biological risks.
Open Philanthropy recommended a total of approximately $2,260,869 in flexible support to enable early-career people to pursue work and study related to global catastrophic biological risks. It sought the majority of applications for this funding here. Recipients include:
- Noga Aharony, PhD program in systems biology at Columbia University
- Yemisi Ajumobi, doctorate program in health security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Gabrielle Aldern, master's program in public health microbiology and emerging infectious diseases at George Washington University
- Salvador Buse, PhD program in synthetic biology at the California Institute of Technology
- Gurpreet Dhaliwal, PhD program in biology at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease
- George Green, master’s program in biodefense at George Mason University
- Simon Grimm, internship at the Biological Weapons Convention
- Maria Gutierrez, PhD program in mathematical biology at University of Cambridge
- John O’Brien, PhD program in zoology at the University of Oxford
- Jonas Sandbrink, PhD program at the University of Oxford
- Zachary Shaw, JD program at the Georgetown University Law Center
- Gavin Taylor, research on the use of electromagnetic radiation as a targeted antiviral
- Ryan Jin Chuan Teo, master's and PhD programs at the University of Warwick
- Nicole Teran, self-study and internship rotations
- Lane Warmbrod, PhD program in public health genetics at the University of Washington
This falls within Open Philanthropy's focus area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.