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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Summary

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](https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/biosecurity-pandemic-preparedness/#about-the-fund)
- [Research & Updates](https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/biosecurity-pandemic-preparedness/#research-updates)
- [Featured Grants](https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/biosecurity-pandemic-preparedness/#featured-grants)

## About the Fund

### Team

- [![](https://coefficientgiving.org/wp-content/uploads/andrew-snyder-beattie.png)](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/andrew-snyder-beattie/)

[Andrew Snyder-Beattie](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/andrew-snyder-beattie/)

Managing Director

- [![](https://coefficientgiving.org/wp-content/uploads/conor-mcgurk.png)](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/conor-mcgurk/)

[Conor McGurk](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/conor-mcgurk/)

Chief of Staff

- [![](https://coefficientgiving.org/wp-content/uploads/Gemini_Generated_Image_7eesl77eesl77ees.png)](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/james-wagstaff/)

[James Wagstaff](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/james-wagstaff/)

Senior Program Officer

- [![](https://coefficientgiving.org/wp-content/uploads/ChrisBakerlee27c-scaled-e1653577716149.jpg)](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/chris-bakerlee/)

[Chris Bakerlee](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/chris-bakerlee/)

Associate Program Officer

- [![](https://coefficientgiving.org/wp-content/uploads/christian-ruhl.png)](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/christian-ruhl/)

[Christian Ruhl](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/christian-ruhl/)

Associate Program Officer

- [![](https://coefficientgiving.org/wp-content/uploads/PXL_20210810_154847828.PORTRAIT-Cropped.jpg)](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/damon-binder/)

[Damon Binder](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/damon-binder/)

Senior Research Analyst

- [![](https://coefficientgiving.org/wp-content/uploads/constantin.jpg)](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/constantin-arnscheidt/)

[Constantin Arnscheidt](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/constantin-arnscheidt/)

Research Fellow

- [![](https://coefficientgiving.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_3146-scaled-e1717991979853.jpeg)](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/neha-singh/)

[Neha Singh](https://coefficientgiving.org/team/neha-singh/)

Operations Lead


### Partners

- [**Good Ventures**](https://www.goodventures.org/)

Interested in providing funding within this space? Reach out to [partnerwithus@coefficientgiving.org](mailto: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 an

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