¶ altLabs
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altLabs is an American nonprofit organization based in Berkeley, California.
¶ Organization
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jacob Swett | President and Co-founder[1] | Council on Strategic Risks, Lockheed Martin, Breakthrough Starshot, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Missouri State University, University of Oxford, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Foresight Institute, ASU Biodesign Institute[2] |
| Ethan Alley | Board Chair | MIT Media Lab, Harvard Medical School, Center for Effective Altruism, Sculpting Evolution Group[3] |
| Kevin Esvelt | Director | MIT Media Lab, Harvard Medical School |
| Gregory Lewis | Director | - |
| Chris Bakerlee | Secretary & Treasurer | - |
| George Church | Scientific Advisor[3:1][4] | - |
¶ Partners
Collaborators and partners of altLabs include the International Genetically Engineered Medicine Foundation (iGEM) Safety and Security Program, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.[5]
¶ Funding
altLabs is funded by the Good Ventures Foundation and Open Philanthropy.[1:1][5:1]
¶ External links
Swett, J. (2021). Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (p. 22). altLabs. https://web.archive.org/web/20230116033559/https://altlabs.tech/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/altLabs-2020-Form-990-FINAL.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎
Jacob Swett - Experience. LinkedIn. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-swett/details/experience/ ↩︎
Alley, E. C., Turpin, M., Liu, A. B., Kulp-McDowall, T., Swett, J., Edison, R., Von Stetina, S. E., Church, G. M., & Esvelt, K. M. (2020). A machine learning toolkit for genetic engineering attribution to facilitate biosecurity. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19612-0 ↩︎ ↩︎
GeorgeChurch-Headshot. altLabs. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.01.16-033548/https://altlabs.tech/georgechurch-headshot-2/ ↩︎
Stocum, K. About altLabs. AltLabs. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230116083232/https://altlabs.tech/about/ ↩︎ ↩︎