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Biosecurity

1 proposals
11 active projects
$348K
Grants32Impact certificates3

Proposals

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Center for AI Policy

Support CAIP’s 3-month project on reducing chem-bio AI risk

AI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
7
0
$100/$400K

Active Projects

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Nuño Sempere

Fund Sentinel for Q1-2025

A foresight and emergency response team seeking to react fast to calamities

BiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
15
19
$40.3K
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Jørgen Ljønes

80,000 Hours

We provide research and support to help people move into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityEA Community ChoiceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
12
13
$4.92K
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Dan Hendrycks

Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects

Technical AI safetyBiosecurity
10
5
$26.7K
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Joel Becker

Estimating annual burden of airborne disease (last mile to MVP)

Boosting advocacy for investment in and deployment of technologies for improving indoor air quality

BiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
6
9
$8.2K
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Tyler John

Philanthropic advising

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
4
5
$50K
🐵

Gregory Sadler

Good Ancestors Policy expenses

GAP is an Australian charity, working to improve the long-term future, that requires funding for salary and operational expenses.

AI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
4
5
$15.1K
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Jonathan Claybrough

Biosecurity bootcamp by EffiSciences

5 day bootcamp upskilling participants on biosecurity, to enable and empower career change towards reducing biorisks, from ML4Good organisers

BiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
2
1
$1.3K
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Duncan Purvis

Influenza Pandemic Protection on Day 1 through universal priming vaccines

Pivoting this project, due to stakeholder feedback. Former focus was inclusion of a pre-pandemic strain in a quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine

Science & technologyACX Grants 2024BiomedicalBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
2
$30K

Complete Projects

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Grace Braithwaite

Preventing Worst Case Pandemics Symposium @ Cambridge

A Cambridge Biosecurity Hub and Cambridge Infectious Diseases Symposium on Avoiding Worst-Case Scenarios

BiomedicalBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
8
13
$4.1K
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Miti Saksena

Optimizing clinical Metagenomics and Far-UVC implementation.

3-month research to inform the design of large-scale R&D projects in metagenomics and Far-UVC

Biosecurity
7
12
$41.8K
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Jorge Andrés Torres Celis

Support Riesgos Catastroficos Globales

Science & technologyAI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
3
8
$32.5K
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Lin Bowker-Lonnecker

Pandemic Interventions Course - Introductory Biosecurity Syllabus

Updates, additional resources and promotion for a 4-week introductory syllabus that looks at interventions to help prevent future pandemics.

Technical AI safetyBiosecurityEA Community ChoiceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$1.12K

Unfunded Projects

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Brian Wang

Design and testing of broad-spectrum antivirals

R&D and/or operational support for initial design, production, and testing of broad-spectrum antivirals that could prevent most respiratory viral infections

Science & technologyBiosecurity
11
24
$0
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Jorge Andrés Torres Celis

Riesgos Catastróficos Globales

Promoting better management of Global Catastrophic Risks in Spanish-Speaking countries.

AI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
5
3
$0
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Allison Berke

Congressional staffers' biosecurity briefings in DC

Following on the Stanford Biosecurity Workshop for Congressional staffers, three events in DC will reconvene staffers and cover research and policy updates

Biosecurity
3
5
$0
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Lin Bowker-Lonnecker

Online Biosecurity Course Starting May 2025

Running the initial online version of a 4-week biosecurity course for 20-50 participants

AI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0
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Dhruvin Patel

Travel Funding to Attend Workshop on Biosecurity and AI Safety at Oxford

Funding top-up for an early-career reseacher to attend Global Challenges Project (GCP) Workshop for career exploration in mitigating GCRs

AI governanceBiosecurityLong-Term Future FundEA communityEA Infrastructure FundGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0
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Dhruv Sumathi

AI For Humans Workshop and Hackathon at Edge Esmeralda

Talks and a hackathon on AI safety, d/acc, and how to empower humans in a post-AGI world.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0
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Marisa Nguyen Olson

Building an AI Accountability Hub

Case Study: Defending OpenAI's Nonprofit Mission

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
2
$0