About
We aim to increase the amount of impactful biosecurity work that is done in the long term. We do this by helping people learn about, work on, and transition into a career in biosecurity. For more on why we think it’s important to work on biosecurity, see this post on our blog.
Our Story
Oxford Biosecurity Group began in September 2023. The three of us were going to work on biosecurity projects alongside our graduate degrees, and we felt that having additional people would be valuable both for direct impact and for helping others further their biosecurity skills and experience.
After running our initial pilot project cycle in October-December 2023, we were positively overwhelmed by the level of interest and positive feedback. We decided to run future project cycles and to focus on connecting promising individuals with opportunities to engage in impactful biosecurity research.
Projects
We help people gain practical experience by running part-time remote research projects in biosecurity and the AI-biology intersection, that people from any country can take part in. We focus primarily on the policy and technology aspects of biosecurity, and projects are often in collaboration with organisations.
We expect that most direct project impact is likely to come from providing support and structure for project leads to (i) do impactful work with the help of researchers or (ii) trialing project ideas which they may later spin out, as well as by (iii) increasing the capacity of other organisations, which allows them to do additional valuable work sooner. We therefore look for projects to fit into at least one of these categories.
For more details about the projects we run, see here.
