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Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $4,000,000 over five years to Kyoto University to support research led by Professor Mitinori Saitou on mammalian gametogenesis. Dr. Saitou is at the forefront of research into methods of causing induced pluripotent stem cells to develop into oocytes in mice; he… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,969,857 over two years to the University of Queensland in America to support research led by Professor Mark Walker testing the impact of four new adjuvants on the efficacy of the COMBO5 vaccine against StrepA in non-human primates. This work could facilitate the development of a… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $800,000 over two years to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to support a multidisciplinary investigation of the mechanisms associated with resilience to Alzheimer’s disease. This includes the development of a drug that mimics the effects of the ApoE3ch allele, which has been reported to suppress early-onset Alzheimer’s. Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $60,000 to the Forecasting Research Institute to support the analysis of forecasting accuracy using data from large forecasting competitions. This falls within Open Philanthropy’s focus area of forecasting. Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $66,950 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to support a multi-day workshop for AI university group organizers. This follows Open Philanthropy’s August 2023 support and falls within its focus area of growing and empowering the community of people… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of INR 8,480,000 (approximately $103,765 at the time of conversion) over three years to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali to support research on air pollution in small-town North India. Professors Anu Sabhlok and Rohit… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $25,000 to the ETH Zurich Foundation (USA) to allow PhD student Javier Rando Ramirez and assistant professor Florian Tramer to run a Trojan detection competition at the 2024 Security and Trustworthy ML conference. This falls within Open Philanthropy’s focus… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of CAD 145,200 (approximately $107,074 at the time of conversion) over two years to The Governors of the University of Calgary to support research led by Dr. Maria Camila Ceballos. Her team aims to identify key factors that led to the adoption of immunocastration… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $109,000 to the University of Helsinki to support travel grants for the European Geosciences Union conference in 2024. These grants will support scientists based in Africa, South/Southeast Asia, and Latin America who research measurement or modeling approaches to addressing air pollution in… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $220,000 to Princeton University to support a project led by Alexander Ploss to develop a set of conditional “knockout mice”. These mutant mice will allow Dr. Ploss and his team to test the safety of inhibiting key host… Read More