This program aims to provide flexible support for a small group of people early in their careers to pursue work and study related to global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs), events in which biological agents could lead to sudden, extraordinary, and widespread disaster. Our goal is to reduce risks to humanity’s long-run future, and this opportunity is aimed at people whose chief interest is GCBRs as they relate to the impact on the very long-run future.

Applications are due here by January 1, 2021, at 11.59 p.m. Pacific Time. We will review applications and make decisions on a rolling basis.

Goals

The goal of this program is to provide flexible support that empowers exceptional people early in their careers who are interested in averting potential global catastrophic biological risks, which we see as an important and neglected issue.

Funding criteria