Gates Foundation releases new ‘Grand Challenges Explorations Round’ round.

Article added on 12-10-2009

Gates Foundation releases new ‘Grand Challenges Explorations Round’ round.

The grant program is one to anyone from any discipline, from colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organisations and for-profit companies. Initial grants of $100,000 are awarded two times a year. Successful projects have the opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of $1 million or more.

The topics for this round are:

• Create New Technologies for Contraception
• Create New Ways to Induce and Measure Mucosal Immunity
• Create Low-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health Conditions
• Create New Ways to Protect Against Infectious Disease

This is the final round for 2009. There were in excess of 3,000 applications made for the previous round so competition is very high!