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PharmAthene
PharmAthene, Inc., formed in March 2001 is pursuing its mission to become the premier company worldwide specializing in the development and rapid commercialization of best-in-class medical countermeasures for the multi-billion dollar biodefense industry. By following a strategy of acquiring leading compounds and technologies focused only on high priority medical countermeasures solutions identified by the United Read More »
- May 18, 2011
- | Filed under North America and Industry
Ploughshares Fund
“The Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives to prevent the spread and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and other weapons of war, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to the use of weapons of mass destruction.” To facilitate this, “Ploughshares Fund grants support efforts to: increase the security Read More »
- July 8, 2010
- | Filed under North America and NGO
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies “identifies and aggressively shepherds discussion on key science and technology issues facing our society, providing in particular, an academic forum for the study of related policy issues. From these discussions and forums, [the Institute] develop[s] meaningful science and technology policy options and ensure their implementation at the intersection of Read More »
- July 8, 2010
- | Filed under North America and NGO
Princeton University
Program on Science and Global Security The Program on Science and Global Security, a research group at Princeton University since 1975, became a unit of the Woodrow Wilson School in July 2001. The Program seeks to provide the technical basis for policy initiatives in nuclear arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation. A principal additional role of Read More »
- July 15, 2010
- | Filed under North America and Academia
Pugwash Conferences
“The mission of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is to bring scientific insight and reason to bear on threats to human security arising from science and technology in general, and above all from the catastrophic threat posed to humanity by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction…Through meetings and projects that bring Read More »
- July 8, 2010
- | Filed under North America, International, and NGO