Research Institutes

CEA institute at the Cadarache Centre in France dedicated to magnetic confinement fusion; it operates the WEST tokamak.

CECAD is a University of Cologne research center studying cellular stress responses in aging and aging-associated diseases.

Field-building center for Law and AI safety scholarship whose co-directors have published on economic and legal rights for AI systems.

Fostering inclusive entrepreneurship for underrepresented communities.

Nonprofit publishing open data and science on climate solutions, including CDR.

AI safety research nonprofit whose AI Wellbeing project measures functional pleasure and pain in language models.

University of Arizona center known for The Science of Consciousness conference series, which covers AI consciousness alongside neuroscience and philosophy.

The University of Copenhagen Center for Healthy Aging was an interdisciplinary center on the biology and health of aging.

Florida Atlantic University center examining machine versus human intelligence, consciousness, and LLM capabilities, host of the annual MindFest conference.

Bridging industry and academia for technological progress.

Research and development in entrepreneurship.

Innovating for inclusive digital futures.

Uppsala neuroethics center, formerly the Human Brain Project's neuroethics and philosophy team, that publishes on whether artificial consciousness is achievable.

Advanced research in air and missile defense.

CEA biomedical research center in Grenoble that developed the WIMAGINE implanted brain-computer interface.

Clock Foundation is a UCLA spin-out nonprofit that develops epigenetic aging clocks, including the Horvath mammalian array, and supports adaptive clinical trials of longevity interventions.

Advancing biomass conversion technologies.

Columbia Engineering center launched in April 2025 to accelerate fusion energy science and technology, building on Columbia's plasma physics program and partnerships with fusion startups.

Axel Cleeremans' lab at the Universite libre de Bruxelles studying consciousness with neural network models, including the idea that systems learn to be conscious.

Padua fusion research consortium of CNR, ENEA, INFN, the University of Padova and Acciaierie Venete; operates RFX-mod2 and the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility (SPIDER, MITICA).

Ethical research and technology validation for societal impact.

Eindhoven research institute working on fusion energy and chemical energy (solar fuels and materials discovery).

Italian consortium of ENEA, Eni, CNR, INFN, Consorzio RFX and universities building the Divertor Tokamak Test facility at ENEA Frascati to study heat exhaust for fusion reactors.

The Dog Aging Project studies aging in companion dogs and runs TRIAD, a placebo-controlled trial of rapamycin in healthy middle-aged dogs.