GCBR Organization Updates - August 2023
Updates from organizations doing impactful work to reduce Global Catastrophic Biological Risks: 1DaySooner, CLTR, Convergent, CSR, Effective Giving, Gryphon Scientific, IFP, CHS, NTI | bio, OpenPhil, and SecureBio.
Welcome! This newsletter aims to provide quarterly updates from organizations working to reduce global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs). We hope to improve transparency, facilitate collaboration, and otherwise accelerate progress in our community. For this first edition, we’ve included 11 organizations that we believe are doing impactful work to reduce GCBRs, but this is by no means an exhaustive list, and we hope to broaden our scope in the future. We’d be grateful for any feedback on the newsletter! You can give us input via this brief form (2 minutes) or by sending an email to…
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