Funding
Opportunity: Grand
Challenges Explorations Round 2 (Call for Proposals)
The
Explorations initiative will focus on rapidly evaluating a large number of
innovative ideas that could lead to new vaccines, diagnostics, drugs, and other
technologies targeting diseases that claim millions of lives every year or new
approaches to filling critical gaps in knowledge.
Grant
proposals are being accepted online on the following topics:
-- Create new vaccines for diarrhea, HIV, malaria, pneumonia, and tuberculosis
-- Create new tools to accelerate the eradication of malaria
-- Create new ways to protect against infectious diseases
-- Create drugs or delivery systems that limit the emergence of resistance
-- Create new ways to prevent or cure HIV infection
-- Explore the basis for latency in tuberculosis
Funder: Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation
Value: Initial grants will
be US$100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the
opportunity to receive additional funding of US$1 million or more.
Guidelines:
http://www.gcgh.org/GCGHDocs/GCE%20Rules%20and%20Guidelines%20Round%202.pdf
Deadline: November 2, 2008
Application
Form (You
must first create an account. Please follow the link below to create your
account):
https://gce.gatesfoundation.org/_layouts/GCE/Pages/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f_layouts%2fAuthenticate.aspx%3fSource%3d%252f&Source=%2f
For
further information and support please contact:
Le
Li
International
Research Facilitator
International
Research Office
University
of Saskatchewan
Email:
le.li@usask.ca