ACX Grants

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Screwworm Free Future

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Screwworm Free Future: Seizing the Eradication Window

Accelerate eradication of the New World Screwworm from South America via research, coordination, and advocacy around safe development of gene-drives

ACX Grants 2025

$55.6K raised

Daniela Shuman

137

Improve eligibility for organ donation

Help previously ineligible living organ donors become eligible to donate

Global health & development ACX Grants 2025

$105K raised

Daniel Elton

116

The Metascience Observatory Replications Database

Using an AI-powered pipeline to study how often experiments replicate across fields, countries, and journals.

Science & technology ACX Grants 2025

$35K raised

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Misha Gurevich

112

make and sell far-UVC lamps for air disinfection

Make cheap, inherently safe, and effective consumer 222nm far-UVC lamps for air and surface disinfection

ACX Grants 2025

$52.1K raised

Thomas Briggs

100

Charting the Policy Landscape of Advanced Education in America

This nationwide report will provide a detailed account of the policies states have that in place to help advanced learners thrive.

Science & technology EA community ACX Grants 2025

$8.35K raised

Bryan Davis

OpenReg: AI tools for FDA application and reg compliance

A set of AI-powered open-source tools intended to shorten time-to-market for medtech innovators.

Science & technology Biomedical ACX Grants 2025

$51K raised

David Carel

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Clean Indoor Air for Schools

Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom

Science & technology Biomedical Biosecurity Global catastrophic risks Global health & development ACX Grants 2025

$150K raised

Alejandro Acelas

AI to screen DNA orders

Create open-source AI tools for customer screening of DNA orders.

ACX Grants 2025

$26K raised

Elaine Perlman

More End Kidney Deaths campaigning

Continue leading a national campaign to pass the End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687), a bill projected to save 100,000 lives and $37B in taxpayer costs over the next decade.

ACX Grants 2025

$94K / $188K

Nuño Sempere

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Forecasting global disasters

Elite cyborg forecasters identify and share the most important signs of global catastrophic risks for you and the public.

ACX Grants 2025

$50.7K raised

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Jacob Witten

mRNA for airway disease

Cure idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, eventually reverse lung aging

ACX Grants 2025

$80K raised

Eradicate the hidden factory farming of feeder rodents

Developing and commercializing an alternative to feeder rodents—tackling one of the most neglected and high-suffering forms of factory farming.

Science & technology Animal welfare Biosecurity ACX Grants 2025

$50.2K raised

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Kurtis Lockhart

YIMBY movement for African cities

Support the AUL to bring a YIMBY movement to African cities so these cities can build the urban infrastructure needed to accommodate ~900 million new urbanites by 2050.

ACX Grants 2025

$85K raised

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Yonatan Grad

Research introduction of new antibiotics

Since new antibiotics are a rare and precious resource, how do we best introduce them to minimize the emergence and spread of resistance?

ACX Grants 2025

$78K raised

Jorge Bastos

AI that standardizes and curates bio datasets

Create a permanent, public, and computable foundation of biological knowledge by building an AI-powered engine that automatically standardizes and curates the world’s biological datasets—past, present, and future.

ACX Grants 2025

$70K raised

Markus Englund

Software to detect data fabrication

Continue developing ‘copy-paste-detective’ - a software that detects signs of data fabrication in scientific research - and run it against 20,000 publicly available Excel datasets.

Science & technology ACX Grants 2025

$50K raised