Anastasia Gamick is co-founder and president of Convergent Research, the group pioneering Focused Research Organizations that tackle big scientific bottlenecks with tight teams and clear milestones. With Convergent and the UK’s ARIA set to launch one to two new UK FROs in early 2026, hearing her explain what gets funded and why is urgent right now.
Since 2021, Convergent has helped stand up around 10 FROs across neuroscience, synthetic biology, and climate, and they are starting to ship public tools and datasets that other labs can use today. Gamick also coauthored a Fall 2025 field report on what works in building FROs, including how they are expanding into areas like AI safety and biosecurity.
Dwarkesh’s audience is primed for metascience and AI, and as far as public listings show, Gamick has not appeared on his podcast before. If you want timely, concrete insight into how the next wave of breakthrough science will actually get built in 2026, support this nomination today.
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Why Their Voice Would Be Valuable
Gamick's insights on institutional design map directly to his core interests in progress studies.