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Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $330,000 over 1.5 years to Princeton University to support research led by Alexander Ploss on developing a variant of hepatitis B virus (HBV) that would infect certain non-human primates. At least 250-400 million people worldwide are chronically infected with HBV. A major… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $838,620 to Effective Ventures Foundation USA to support a new AI safety research group, led by Owain Evans, that will focus on evaluating whether AI models have dangerous capabilities. This falls within Open Philanthropy’s focus area of potential risks from advanced… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,200,000 over three years to Washington University in St. Louis to support research led by Professor David Sibley on Cryptosporidium hominis (C. hominis), a species of human-specific parasite that is one of the leading causes of pediatric diarrheal deaths and long-term disability in the… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $24,750 over two years to the Global Rice Research Foundation to support fellowships for PhD students interested in food security. This falls within Open Philanthropy’s focus area of scientific research, specifically within its interest in advancing… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $214,775 to the National Bureau of Economic Research to support its Innovation Policy Working Group, led by Professors Benjamin Jones and Heidi Williams. This funding will support a summer boot camp for PhD students on the economics of innovation, as well as an innovation… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $400,000 to Convergent Research to support biosecurity projects related to far-UVC light, biosurveillance, and next-generation personal protective equipment. This follows Open Philanthropy’s June 2022 support and falls within its focus area of biosecurity… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £21,084 (approximately $26,983 at the time of conversion) to the University of Reading to support research led by Dr. Walter Veit on farm animal welfare. This falls within Open Philanthropy’s focus area of farm animal welfare. Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $1,425,475 over three years to the University of Washington to support work led by Professor Chetan Seshadri analyzing T-cell receptors derived from individuals resistant to tuberculosis (TB) as leads for designing novel TB vaccines. Open Philanthropy’s science team believes that… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $350,000 over three years to the University of Maryland to support research led by Professor Tom Goldstein on how neural networks generalize. Open Philanthropy sought applications for this funding to support FTX Future Fund grantees affected… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $116,072 to Northeastern University to support a postdoctoral position for Sam Marks in Professor David Bau’s lab, where Sam will conduct research on mechanistic interpretability. This follows Open Philanthropy’s November 2022 support and falls… Read More