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.

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

Pandemic Prevention Fellowship

7-week introductory biosecurity fellowship running in Cambridge this autumn.

Fellowship is running now, but we run one a term so keep an eye out for future cohorts

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See our events page for full details

Collaborations

CBH advises a few fellowship programmes including ERA’s AIxBio Fellowship, Pivotal’s Frontier Biodefense Fellowship and SPAR’s biosecurity stream.

Expressions of interest for all three programmes are on their websites.

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We’re proud to announce the opening of the London Biosecurity Hub!

LBH aims to bring together London’s biosecurity and pandemic preparedness community.

Please join look at LBH’s LinkedIn to stay up to date on all the exciting events to come. 

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

  • Grace Braithwaite

    FOUNDER and DIRECTOR

  • Sandy Hickson

    FOUNDER

  • Phil Palmer

    RESEARCH LEAD

  • Richard Moulange

    RESEARCH AFFILIATE