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Coefficient Giving Grant - Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative
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This is the landing page for Coefficient Giving's biosecurity fund, relevant to AI safety audiences because it explicitly links AI capabilities advances to increased biological catastrophic risk, representing a major philanthropic effort at the AI-biosecurity intersection.
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Coefficient Giving's Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness Fund supports work to guard against catastrophic biological risks, including those amplified by advanced biotechnology and AI. Having made 140+ grants totaling $260+ million, the fund focuses on research, technology, and policy to prevent and mitigate future pandemics, with particular emphasis on technological risks that could cause civilizational-scale harm.
Key Points
- •Fund has made 140+ grants totaling over $260 million since before COVID-19, focusing on catastrophic biological risk prevention.
- •Explicitly addresses AI-amplified biosecurity risks, recognizing that advances in AI and biotech could make future pandemics far worse than natural diseases.
- •Supports development of affordable respiratory protection, metagenomic sequencing for pathogen detection, and other defensive technologies.
- •Frames biological risks as potential existential threats capable of derailing centuries of progress or causing human extinction.
- •Managed by Andrew Snyder-Beattie and a multidisciplinary team with partners including Good Ventures.
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
We support work to guard against catastrophic biological risks, especially ones from advanced technology.
140+
grants made
$260+
million given
Contents
About the Fund
Research & Updates
Featured Grants
About the Fund
Team
Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Managing Director
Conor McGurk
Chief of Staff
James Wagstaff
Senior Program Officer
Chris Bakerlee
Associate Program Officer
Christian Ruhl
Associate Program Officer
Aman Patel
Senior Program Associate
Damon Binder
Senior Research Analyst
Constantin Arnscheidt
Research Fellow
Neha Singh
Operations Lead
Partners
Good Ventures
Interested in providing funding within this space? Reach out to partnerwithus@coefficientgiving.org .
Disease outbreaks have been responsible for some of the deadliest events in human history. Over five years, COVID-19 caused tens of millions of excess deaths and shrank the global economy by tens of trillions of dollars. But that was far from a worst-case scenario: advances in biotechnology and AI could make future biological risks even more severe than natural diseases. These risks could be among the greatest threats to society — capable of derailing centuries of progress or even causing human extinction.
Since our work on biosecurity began — five years before COVID-19 — we’ve been supporting research, technology, and policy initiatives aimed at preventing these risks and mitigating their consequences, with a particular focus on technological risks. Access to the right tools and knowledge could save millions of lives in future catastrophic biological events.
Our grantees’ work includes:
Developing widespread affordable respiratory protection to protect healthcare staff and other essential workers in the event of a pandemic.
Advancing defensive technologies like metagenomic sequencing to detect pathogens and Far-UVC light to disinfect shared spaces.
Improving governance and security, through stronger international norms on biological weapons, dual-use research oversight, mirror bacteria , and DNA synthesis screening.
Research & Updates
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Request for Proposals
Request for Proposals: Biosecurity
We want to support work aimed at preventing engineered biological threats from emerging and improving our response to these threats should prevention fail. We’re eager to fund
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