Excited to see just-launching FROs EvE Bio Parallel Squared Technology Institute (PTI) and up-&-running FROs Cultivarium E11 Bio featured in Forbes. With support from Schmidt Futures & new support from Ken Griffin for Parallel Squared Technology Institute (PTI) as well as a not-yet-announced project! forbes.com/sites/alexknap…

Thank you Convergent Research & Schmidt Futures. Being a FRO enables us to create open-source tools to expand access to novel microbes, inspire new research avenues, and push the frontiers of biotechnology.

Excited about this new Schmidt Futures podcast, where we talk to non-profit leaders from Ukraine and peace builders from South Sudan, CEOs from the UK and South Africa, and defense professionals from Germany and the US about building a freer, safer, and more prosperous world.

Big win for patients as HRSA announces plans to break up the national organ donation monopoly. Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow Jennifer Erickson and grantee @GregSegal613 have been working on this important bipartisan reform for years. washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03…

In partnership with @TheNASEM, Schmidt Futures is excited to announce that applications are open for the 2023 Schmidt Awards in Science Communications: schmidtfutures.com/submissions-fo…

We're proud to see our very own mary maxon, Executive Director of BioFutures, featured in Forbes as a Bioeconomy leader. forbes.com/sites/johncumb…

Schmidt Futures is excited to announce the launch of The Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute (OBVI) in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean. OBVI aims tackle some of the most challenging data and modeling problems in ocean biogeochemistry research: schmidtfutures.com/obvi

A machine-learning technique co-authored by Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow Susan Athey helps identify people who would benefit most from treatment to reduce future cardiovascular disease risk. Learn more: uclahealth.org/news/machine-l…

In partnership with @RhodesTrust, Schmidt Futures is excited to announce our 2023 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows. This year’s remarkable class will harness interdisciplinary science to tackle some of the world’s most intractable problems: schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/eric-and-…

Congratulations to the 32 scientists who have joined the 2023 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows. They will pursue the next revolutions in science, conducting bold research across disciplinary boundaries, with the freedom to try something new: schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/eric-and-…

With great resilience, Jamie Beard, a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow, has dedicated the majority of her career to championing a geothermal future. We were deeply moved by this inspiring piece on Jamie, penned by Maria Streshinsky of WIRED: wired.com/story/where-to…

.Eric Schmidt is always two steps ahead of the curve and able to spot trends coming down the innovation pipeline... this time in the bioeconomy. A year ago he forbes.com/sites/johncumb…

Congrats to the Cultivarium team for progress on domesticating non-model organizations and growing the bioeconomy! This is why Schmidt Futures is supporting Convergent Research - and why more philanthropists should support Focused Research Organizations.

Learn more about the incredible work being done by @schmidtfutures Innovation Fellow Sixto Cancel

Thank you to our partners @usdresponse, All Tech Is Human and @ffwdorg for their support in helping us make Tekalo a reality. Learn more at tekalo.org

In 2021, the #Quad Leaders announced the Quad Fellowship -- a scholarship sponsoring 100 students from Australia, India, Japan and the United States to study postgraduate STEM degrees in the U.S. This week, Ambassador Kennedy met with the inaugural cohort in Melbourne. 1/

"There is no greater reward than improving the lives of others. This Fellowship gives you the chance to do that - to serve the public in the pursuit of knowledge - and at the end of the day, we will all be judged not by what we receive but by what we give" - Ambassador Kennedy 2/

Congrats to Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow Chris Voigt on his new role! Christopher Voigt

Last week, our International Strategy Forum (ISF) hosted its inaugural 'Policy Hackathon' at the ISF Europe convening in Bellagio, Italy. Eighteen brilliant Fellows gathered to ideate proposals on topics like space policy, AI regulation, and accelerating innovation in the EU.

After more than a decade with BBC News (World) BBC News (UK) I have decided to depart the organisation. I do so with profound gratitude to all of my extraordinarily talented colleagues for their support and collaboration over the years