[open-science] Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities - New Grand Challenges Explorations Topics

Fri Sep 7 09:04:21 UTC 2012

I am all for it!

Tom

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Can we mash up a proposal at OKFest - this looks potentially very exciting.
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> *Subject: **Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities - New Grand Challenges
> Explorations Topics*
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> Dear Colleagues:
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> The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for
> Round 10 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.
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> Two-page grant proposals are being accepted online until November 7, 2012
> on the following topics:
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> * Labor Saving Innovations for Women Smallholder Farmers
> * New Approaches in Model Systems, Diagnostics, and Drugs for Specific
> Neglected Tropical Diseases
> * New Approaches for the Interrogation of Anti-malarial Compounds
> * Aid is Working. Tell the World.
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> 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 topics and application instructions are available
> at: www.grandchallenges.org/gce
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