Next Generation for Biosecurity Competition
Funding Amount
Varies
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
foundation
Overview
Next Generation for Biosecurity Competition
Status: Active (9th annual competition announced March 18, 2025; 2025 winners announced November 20, 2025)
Geographic Scope: Global (previous competitions had participants from 19 countries across five continents)
Focus Areas: Biosecurity, biological weapons definitions, biosecurity investments and equity
Eligibility:
Program Overview:
NTI | bio hosts this competition to provide a platform for next-generation global leaders in biosecurity to develop original concepts and share them with the wider biosecurity community.
Competition Themes:
Contact:
What Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 6
- Total given
- $357K
- Median grant
- $23K
- Range
- $12K–$235K
- By dollars: California 84%, District of Columbia 10%, Rhode Island 6%. Top recipient cities: Washington, DC; Monterey, CA; Mill Valley, CA.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey · Monterey, CA
To maintain research on NTI's website
$235K
Horizon 2045 · Mill Valley, CA
To identify disruptive legal and normative strategies to help shift the nuclear…
$50K
Herbert Scoville Jr Peace Fellowship · Washington, DC
To support the Scoville fellowship program
$25K
Brown University · Providence, RI
To support a pilot of a Regional Health Security Index
$20K
Synbiobeta LLC · Lafayette, CA
To support a SynBio Beta conference
$15K
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