Gryphon Scientific
Gryphon Scientific is an American scientific consulting company based in Takoma Park, Maryland.
History
Gryphon was founded in 2005.
In April 2015, Gryphon sought to hire a Lead Scientist with “secret” level security clearance to join the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program at Fort Detrick, Maryland.1) In December 2015, Gryphon released a draft report of a study conducted in collaboration with Abt Associates and Signature Science between March and December examining the risks and benefits of gain of function research, funded by the National Institutes of Health.2) 3)
In May 2020, Open Philanthropy awarded Gryphon a $2,000,000 grant over three years “to support the generation of empirical data to fill critical gaps in biosafety,” and to “analyze lab safety measures, with the aim of reducing the probability of catastrophic accidents.”4)
In September 2022, Gryphon participated as an exhibitor at OPTIONS XI, a conference on the control of influenza and COVID-19, in Belfast, England.5)
Personnel
Organization
Affiliations
Gryphon is a member of the Global Health Security Agenda Consortium.7)
Some of the firm's project partners include Abt Associates, the Airlangga Disease Prevention and Research Center, American University of Beirut, Arizona State University, Association of American Medical Colleges, Association of Public Health Laboratories, General Dynamics Information Technology, Healthcare Ready, Human Link, the Indonesia One Health University Network (INDOHUN), Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Malaysian Science and Technology Research Institute for Defence, Merck, Metabiota, Moroccan Biosafety Association, National Defense University, National Marrow Donor Program, Parsons, Rhodium Group, the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan, the University of Batna 1, University of Maryland and University of Wisconsin.8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13)
Clients
Gryphon's clients include:14)
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency DTRA
- United States Agency for International Development USAID
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- United States Department of State
- United States Naval Research Laboratory
The firm also has long-term contracts with the United States Government through the General Services Administration (GSA), Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND), Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Office (CBRN), as well as the World Health Organization.