The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Get those brain cells to work.

StephenW

Dear colleagues:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 8 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.

Grant proposals are being accepted online until November 17, 2011 on the following topics:

   NEW - Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses From Field to Market
   NEW - Design new approaches to optimize immunization systems
   NEW - Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas
   Explore Nutrition for Healthy Growth of Infants and Children
   Apply Synthetic Biology to Global Health Challenges

Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.  Full descriptions of the new topics and application instructions are available at: www.grandchallenges.org/r8_gce

We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world and from all disciplines. If you have a great idea, apply. If you know someone else who may have a great idea, please forward this message.

Thank you for your commitment to solving the world's greatest health challenges.


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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people - especially those with the fewest resources - have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

sadwin

It makes me remember the REP 9AC, I hope they can be recommended

StephenW

回复 sadwin 的帖子

Good point. I wonder whether REP 9AC will be eligible.

走遍四方

Catch time。maybe microsoft will not profit so much in future if the windows operation system phase out gradually...

sadwin

They are a for-profit -company, and the REP 9AC is an innovative medicine, maybe this two points are eligble, I hope they can do something, if they can get the money and spend it on the REP 9AC, it will be a big good news for hbvers~