[GlobalHealth] Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities

[BOBBI NODELL]

Here's some good news if you haven't seen it already. 

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Subject: 	Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities - New Grand Challenges
Explorations Topics
Date: 	15 Mar 2011 11:19:39 -0700
From: 	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
<gates at notifications.gatesfoundation.org>
Reply-To: 	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
<grandchallenges at gatesfoundation.org>
To: 	moberle at u.washington.edu



The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has just announced 78 grants to
explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve global health. The
press release is available at
http://www.grandchallenges.org/about/Newsroom/Pages/GCERound4Grants.aspx.

The grants of US$100,000 each will be made to investigators from 18
countries and 6 continents. They mark the fourth round of funding from
Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to help lower the barriers
for testing innovative ideas in global health. For more details on the
grants please visit
http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations/Pages/GrantsAwarded.aspx.

Please also take a moment to view our new video
<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/healthscienceandtechnology/Pages/grand-challenges-explorations-promo-video.aspx> 

on the Grand Challenges Explorations program.

Grant proposals for Round 5 are being accepted online at
http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations until May 19, 2010 on the
following topics:

     * Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global
       Health Condition
     * Create New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns
     * Create New Ways to Protect Against Infectious Disease
     * Create New Technologies for Contraception

Topics for Round 6 will be announced in September 2010. Additional
information is available at: http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations.

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

The Grand Challenges Explorations Team

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