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# altLabs
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/altlabs/
- Published: 1999-01-02T09:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-31T22:42:19.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

**altLabs** is an American nonprofit organization based in Berkeley, California.

## Organization

| Name           | Position                                       | Notes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Jacob Swett    | President and Co-founder[\[1\]](#fn1)          | Council on Strategic Risks, Lockheed Martin, Breakthrough Starshot, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Missouri State University, University of Oxford, [Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Johns-Hopkins-Center-for-Health-Security), Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Foresight Institute, ASU Biodesign Institute[\[2\]](#fn2) |
| Ethan Alley    | Board Chair                                    | MIT Media Lab, Harvard Medical School, Center for Effective Altruism, Sculpting Evolution Group[\[3\]](#fn3)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Kevin Esvelt   | Director                                       | MIT Media Lab, Harvard Medical School                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Gregory Lewis  | Director                                       | \-                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Chris Bakerlee | Secretary & Treasurer                          | \-                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| George Church  | Scientific Advisor[\[3:1\]](#fn3)[\[4\]](#fn4) | \-                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |

### Partners

Collaborators and partners of altLabs include the International Genetically Engineered Medicine Foundation (iGEM) Safety and Security Program, [Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Johns-Hopkins-Center-for-Health-Security) and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.[\[5\]](#fn5)

### Funding

altLabs is funded by the [Good Ventures Foundation](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Good-Ventures) and [Open Philanthropy](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Open-Philanthropy).[\[1:1\]](#fn1)[\[5:1\]](#fn5)

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=altlabs)
- [Website](https://altlabs.tech/)

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1. Swett, J. (2021). *Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax* (p. 22). altLabs. <https://web.archive.org/web/20230116033559/https://altlabs.tech/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/altLabs-2020-Form-990-FINAL.pdf> [↩︎](#fnref1) [↩︎](#fnref1:1)
2. *Jacob Swett - Experience.* LinkedIn. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-swett/details/experience/> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. Alley, E. C., Turpin, M., Liu, A. B., Kulp-McDowall, T., Swett, J., Edison, R., Von Stetina, S. E., Church, G. M., & Esvelt, K. M. (2020). A machine learning toolkit for genetic engineering attribution to facilitate biosecurity. *Nature Communications, 11*(1). <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19612-0> [↩︎](#fnref3) [↩︎](#fnref3:1)
4. *GeorgeChurch-Headshot.* altLabs. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from <http://archive.today/2023.01.16-033548/https://altlabs.tech/georgechurch-headshot-2/> [↩︎](#fnref4)
5. Stocum, K. *About altLabs.* AltLabs. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20230116083232/https://altlabs.tech/about/> [↩︎](#fnref5) [↩︎](#fnref5:1)