Grants and Fellowships
We are most interested in supporting early-career and independent researchers, those with unorthodox backgrounds, and people working across disciplinary lines and on “zero-to-one” research projects.
2024 Fellows:
- Mike Ferguson (developmental biology & tissue engineering), an independent researcher.
- Max Shirokawa (atomic physics & open science), a graduate student @ MIT.
- Samarth Jajoo (ML & proteomics), an undergraduate student @ UC Berkeley.
- Theia Vogel (multi-agent AI & ML interpretability), an independent researcher.
- Katya Osipova (evolution & genomics), a postdoc @ Harvard.
- Joshua Bauchner (history of science & the origin of scientific ideas), an independent researcher.
- Seyone Chithrananda (ML & proteomics), an undergraduate student @ UC Berkeley.
2023 Grantees
- Kevin Liu (computational democracy & AI preparedness), an undergraduate student @ Stanford. Currently @ OpenAI.
- Benjamin Chang (bio & ML), an undergraduate student @ Harvard.
- Collin Burns (AI safety), a graduate student @ UC Berkeley. Currently @ OpenAI.
- Collin Juurakko (biopreservation), a postdoc @ Queen’s University. Currently Founder @ Advanced Agriscience.
- Alex Epstein (single-cell RNA sequencing), a graduate student @ Rockefeller.
- Nora Belrose (ML interpretability), Head of interpretability research @ EleutherAI.
- Neuromatch (online neuroscience education).
- Daniel Barabasi (connectomics), a graduate student @ Harvard. Currently a Fellow @ Broad.
- Ryan Flynn (glycans & RNA, molecular biology), a Professor @ Boston Children’s Hospital.
- Daniel Paleka (ML interpretability), a graduate student @ ETH Zurich.
2022 One-year Fellows:
- Julie Chen (the role of DNA methylation in aging), an undergraduate @ Stanford.
- Scott Berger (evolution of multicellularity), a graduate student in the Chistol Lab @ Stanford.
2022 Summer Fellows:
- Avadhoot Jadhav (synthetic biology & virology), a Master’s student @ IISER Pune. Currently a Research Fellow in the Ploegh Lab @ Harvard
- Diana Leung (cellular communication & adaption), an independent researcher.
- Katherine Xiang (protein sequencing), a graduate student at Harvard.
- Kian Faizi (synthetic biology & evolution), a graduate student in the Phillips Lab @ Caltech.
- Riley Stockard (synthetic biology), a graduate student in the Lim Lab @ UC Berkeley.
See details of fellows' projects here.
2022 Grantees
- Adam Green (ML & bio), an independent researcher. Currently the CEO @ Markov Bio.
- Adam Strandberg (cell biology), an independent researcher. Currently a graduate student in the Needleman Lab @ Harvard.
- Dylan Husmann (cancer research), a graduate student in the Gozani lab @ Stanford. Currently a postdoc in the Gozani lab @ Stanford.
- Roger’s Bacon (speculative metascience), an independent researcher.
- James Heathers (automated error detection in scientific papers). Currently a co-founder @ Fuel My Day Foods.
- Isaak Freeman (neuroscience/BCI research), an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. Currently a graduate student in the Boyden Lab @ MIT
- Phillip Compeau (online biology education), a Professor @ CMU.
- Étienne Fortier-Dubois (metascience), an independent researcher. Currently an AI evaluation specialist @ Elicit.
- Michael Trinh (RNA sensing), an undergraduate student @ Univeristy of Toronto. Currently a Master’s student @ McGill.