bioweapons
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The Nobel Prize, CRISPR-Cas9 and Biological Threats
By Christine Parthemore The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) would like to congratulate Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for receiving the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced on October 7th. This prestigious prize was awarded for their work developing CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology. Doudna—a champion for countering biological threats and improving science communications with…
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Early Warning in Preventing Future Pandemics: Incredible Opportunity & Major Hurdles
Data will be one of the central components of preventing future outbreaks from growing to pandemic proportions. This holds for natural disease outbreaks and for deliberate biological attacks. Our tools and methods for collecting, analyzing, and using data are incredible and improving rapidly. Such capabilities have been put to productive use against COVID-19 by some…
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CSR Announces Inaugural Class of its Fellowship for Ending Bioweapons Programs
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) has selected its inaugural class of the Fellowship for Ending Bioweapons Programs. In this one-year program, five Fellows will work with leading experts from CSR’s team and network to generate ideas for ending the threat of state biological weapons programs. Together, the CSR team will collaborate with the Fellows…
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Call for Applications: Fellowship for Ending Bioweapons Programs
As the world continues to battle the novel coronavirus that leads to COVID-19, it is a stark reminder of the devastation biological threats can cause. And while this ongoing pandemic arose naturally, it once again proves the grave threat biological weapons still pose to international security and stability. The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) is…
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Call for Applications: Fellowship for Ending Bioweapons Programs
As the world continues to battle the novel coronavirus that leads to COVID-19, it is a stark reminder of the devastation biological threats can cause. And while this ongoing pandemic arose naturally, it once again proves the grave threat biological weapons still pose to international security and stability. The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) is…
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CSR Receives Grant for Reducing Biological Threats
As the world continues to grapple with the devastation of an ongoing pandemic from a novel coronavirus, the Council on Strategic Risks is doing all it can to help inform response decisions and mitigate future biological threats. To help advance this work, in March 2020 Open Philanthropy provided a grant to the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR). The…
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RELEASE: Can the U.S. Make Bioweapons Obsolete?
The Council on Strategic Risks and Sandia National Laboratories Help Set Vision to Reach Ambitious Goal Livermore, CA, March 3, 2020 — The coronavirus outbreak that began in China not long ago has already killed over 3800 people worldwide. This virus, designated COVID-19, has sickened tens of thousands more, disrupted global trade and travel, and…