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Program Director, Open Philanthropy

science!
I blogged more about the roles here: blog.jacobtrefethen.com/hiring/

Please share the job descriptions with colleagues and friends who you think may be interested! 🙏
Hiring scientists to give away money
At Open Philanthropy, we have given away $600 million in biomedical research since 2016. That funding has supported the work of thousands of scientists across hundreds of universities, nonprofits, and...
blog.jacobtrefethen.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
You can get a sense of what we support from this piece last year. We fund whatever we believe is important, neglected, and tractable across many areas of discovery and translation, which leads to a broad portfolio. Generalists very much welcome!

www.openphilanthropy.org/research/fiv...
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hiring a PO to help us give away tens of millions more in vaccine R&D over the coming years, in particular to make progress on strep A. Kills 600k/y but should be fixable with creativity...

Looking for an experienced scientist, but not necessarily in strep A:

jobs.ashbyhq.com/openphilanth...
Program Officer, Science and Global Health R&D
Open Philanthropy is seeking a Program Officer to execute, expand, and refine our existing grantmaking strategies in Global Health R&D.
jobs.ashbyhq.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Senior Program Associates will work closely with our existing (world class!) POs to help scale grantmaking

Variety of research & analysis, interacting with grantees, portfolio management

Fun for people with technical backgrounds who are impact focused:

jobs.ashbyhq.com/openphilanth...
Senior Program Associates, Science and Global Health R&D
Open Philanthropy is looking for multiple Senior Program Associates to support our grantmaking aimed at improving global health through scientific research and R&D
jobs.ashbyhq.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This one is kind of for you tbh, made us happy to think of your reaction if we dropped it
October 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Spotify likes to do a second transcript of its own, and gave you a new name:
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
me too!
October 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reposted
1/3 As someone diagnosed as Type 1 in 1976, I can remember beginning on porcine insulin (bovine was another alternative). The first "human" insulin I had was actually enzymatically modified porcine. I started with glass syringes, with exchangeable all metal needles, stored in methylated spirit.
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Very interesting. Thank you so much for sharing!
September 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM