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A friend of mine sent me the below information that I thought was to good not to share. He is a PhD toxicologist and I invited him to the meeting next week. I hope he shows up.
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54656/
Thousands vie for Gates grants
Posted by Bob Grant
[Entry posted at 21st May 2008 04:23 PM GMT]
Biologists have been submitting research proposals in droves hoping to
receive money from a new Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant program
aimed at improving global health. As Yiwu He, Gates foundation senior
program officer in global health, told me at a biomarker meeting in
Philadelphia on Monday (May 19), the Gates Foundation has gotten about
5,000 proposals for the Grand Challenges Explorations program since
registration opened at the end of March.
The program seeks to encourage and support research ideas that could lead
to new vaccines, diagnostics, drugs, and other technologies targeting
diseases that kill millions of people in the developing world.
In this first round of the program, funds will be awarded to research
projects falling under four topics set out by the Gates Foundation:
Explore the Basis of Latency In Tuberculosis, Create New Ways to Prevent
or Cure HIV Infection, Create New Ways of Protecting Against Infectious
Disease, Create New Drugs and Delivery Systems To Limit the Emergence of
Resistance.
The program's funding structure is similar to the federal government's
Small Business Innovation Research program, which supports research-based
start-ups by providing progressively larger infusions of cash based on the
success of programs. The Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations
grants award successful researchers $100,000 at the start of their
projects, then grant one million dollars at the end of 12 months if the
research is showing continued promise.
Registrations are still being accepted online for the first round of
funding, and final proposals are due by May 30. A second round of awards,
which will focus on four different topics addressing global health, will
begin sometime later this year, and He told me that approximately 100
round one awardees will be announced this September. He expects the
program to include two rounds of funding per year for the next several
years.
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54656/
Thousands vie for Gates grants
Posted by Bob Grant
[Entry posted at 21st May 2008 04:23 PM GMT]
Biologists have been submitting research proposals in droves hoping to
receive money from a new Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant program
aimed at improving global health. As Yiwu He, Gates foundation senior
program officer in global health, told me at a biomarker meeting in
Philadelphia on Monday (May 19), the Gates Foundation has gotten about
5,000 proposals for the Grand Challenges Explorations program since
registration opened at the end of March.
The program seeks to encourage and support research ideas that could lead
to new vaccines, diagnostics, drugs, and other technologies targeting
diseases that kill millions of people in the developing world.
In this first round of the program, funds will be awarded to research
projects falling under four topics set out by the Gates Foundation:
Explore the Basis of Latency In Tuberculosis, Create New Ways to Prevent
or Cure HIV Infection, Create New Ways of Protecting Against Infectious
Disease, Create New Drugs and Delivery Systems To Limit the Emergence of
Resistance.
The program's funding structure is similar to the federal government's
Small Business Innovation Research program, which supports research-based
start-ups by providing progressively larger infusions of cash based on the
success of programs. The Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations
grants award successful researchers $100,000 at the start of their
projects, then grant one million dollars at the end of 12 months if the
research is showing continued promise.
Registrations are still being accepted online for the first round of
funding, and final proposals are due by May 30. A second round of awards,
which will focus on four different topics addressing global health, will
begin sometime later this year, and He told me that approximately 100
round one awardees will be announced this September. He expects the
program to include two rounds of funding per year for the next several
years.
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