Safeguarding Biological Research.
Working to usher in a future of safe and transformative biotechnologies.
About CBH
The Cambridge Biosecurity Hub exists to grow and strengthen the biosecurity community. CBH runs events, makes career resources, and teaches programmes to get more people working on pandemic preparedness.
What we do
Biosecurity Landing Doc
The CBH community has a ‘landing document’ filled with useful resources as a go-to place for people to look when trying to find information. So far the categories covered are:
Readings
Fellowships/workshops
Community mapping
Funders
Advice guides
Potential projects
This is a living document so please comment with anything useful you come across and we’ll add it to the doc. All contributions are welcome!
Events and opportunities
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Apply to the AIxBiosecurity Research Fellowship
Running for 10 weeks full-time, during 6th July - 11th September
The deadline to apply is April 27th, 23:59 UTC
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AIxBio hackathon on the weekend of 24-26th April in collaboration with Blue Dot Impact and APART
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See our events page for full details on the events listed above
Collaborations
CBH collaberated with ERA to run the first AIxBio Fellowship
It was an 8-week, fully funded research fellowship at Cambridge, UK, from January 26 - March 20, 2026.
Our aim is for fellows to work on concrete projects mitigating biosecurity risks, including those amplified by frontier AI.
Keep an eye out for their work being posted over the next few weeks
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CBH is working with SPAR, a part-time, remote research fellowship, to run their first biosecurity stream.
Applications are now closed, but complete an expression of interest if you’re interested in applying for a future round.
Previous Projects
AIxBio Symposium at the Cambridge Union on 16th March. A “very valuable field building event”.
We had nearly 100 attendees, talks from 6 expert speakers and 15 posters from the ERA Cambridge AIxBio Fellows.Pandemic Prevention Fellowship - 7 week speaker series with 20 fellows completing
In person ‘Biosecurity Fundamentals’ reading groups
Biosecurity research sprints
The Cambridge Pandemic Prevention Symposium was held at Jesus College on 7th October 2024. We had >100 attendees and a series of impressive speakers including Dr Cassidy Nelson (CLTR), Dr Ewan Harrison (University of Cambridge), Dr Nicole Wheeler (University of Birmingham) and Dr Sana Zakaria (RAND Europe).
Meet the Team
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Grace Braithwaite
FOUNDER and DIRECTOR
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Sandy Hickson
FOUNDER
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Phil Palmer
RESEARCH LEAD
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Richard Moulange
RESEARCH AFFILIATE