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Coefficient Giving

About the Fund

Open Calls for Proposals

We are open to receiving unsolicited short pre-proposals at science@coefficientgiving.org. We try to consider all proposals but are unable to respond in most cases.

We seek to support scientific research that could help prevent the next pandemic.

Pandemics, regardless of cause, have the potential to cause significant, and perhaps unprecedented, harm. We support breakthrough research in the basic science of infectious disease, pathogen detection and identification, and countermeasures. We are especially interested in research that applies to a wide swath of pathogen types. Others at Open Philanthropy support policy and governance efforts to reduce these risks.

Research & Updates

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  • Explaining Our Bet on Sherlock Biosciences' Innovations in Viral Diagnostics

    In 2019, we awarded a five-year grant and made an additional investment in Sherlock Biosciences to support the development of a diagnostic platform to quickly, easily, and inexpensively identify any human virus present in a patient sample.

  • Biosecurity

    Natural pandemics, bioterrorism, biological weapons, and dual use scientific research have the potential to cause significant, and perhaps unprecedented, harm. The risks from engineered threats are likely to grow in the future.
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