Director, Genomics
Effective Altruism Global · Boston, MA · 4 days ago
ManagementFull-time
Platform
Our always-on Biothreat Radar system forecasts and detects threats as they emerge, characterizing risk for your context and guiding your intelligent response.
- Detect Layered collection modalities deployed in your operational environment, turning the physical world into a powerful dataset.
- Characterize World-class computational biology paired with frontier AI delivers unparalleled insight into what's circulating in your environment, and what it means for you.
- Respond Synthesized intelligence that enables decisive response, delivered before threats escalate.
Forecast
Custom models forecast biological risk across time and geography, before events unfold.
- Forecast Custom models forecast biological risk – including likelihood, severity, and geographic spread – to help you make informed decisions before threats materialize.
- Catch dominant variants this early provides the kind of actionable intelligence that can inform vaccine strain selection and reduce the risk of vaccine mismatch in future seasons.
- When Mpox Clade Ib emerged in 2024, a 1kb genomic deletion rendered existing field diagnostics ineffective, creating a 30-week global blind spot between emergence and confirmed detection.
- The system is continually advanced to keep pace with modern bioengineering tools and expanded to handle increasingly complex sample types.
Case Studies
- Your Earliest Early Warning, Validated Case Study: In August 2025, through the TGS program, we identified novel H3N2 subclade K seven days before it appeared in any public repository.
- Future-Proof Detection Infrastructure That Evolves with Threats: When Mpox Clade Ib emerged in 2024, a 1kb genomic deletion rendered existing field diagnostics ineffective, creating a 30-week global blind spot between emergence and confirmed detection.
Tailored to Mission Needs
- At a premier U.S. military treatment facility, our proactive biosurveillance program detected vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) a full week before clinical identification of patient infection.
- These tools can apply across military infrastructure including installations, forward-operating bases, and ships, providing commanders with early warning to mitigate Disease and Non-Battle Injuries (DNBI) and protect force health and readiness.
Genetic Engineering Detection
- Developed in collaboration with IARPA under the FELIX program (Finding Engineering-Linked Indicators) and validated through 4 T&E exercises with US National Labs, Perimeter’s ENDAR (Engineered Nucleotide Detection and Ranking) system is a first-of-its-kind analysis toolkit that distinguishes genetic engineering from natural evolution or sequencing noise.
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