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22 October 2008
104 bold little research grants from Gates' Grand Challenges
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the first set of 104 Grand Challenges Explorations grants, a program that offers $100,000 to seed exciting ideas in global health. (It's part of the $200 million research initiative called Grand Challenges in Global Health.) These small grants
... will foster innovation in global health research and expand the pipeline of ideas that merit further exploration. The initiative will use an agile, accelerated grant-making process with short two-page applications. Initial grants will be awarded multiple times per year at approximately $100,000 each. Additional funding of $1 million or more will be available for projects that show promise.
The list of 104 grants is packed with interesting questions and ideas, grouped around several topics: latent TB (a third of all humanity is estimated to be carrying TB bacteria, but TB doesn't develop in most of us -- why?); preventing or curing HIV; protecting against infectious disease; and fighting drug resistance.
Applications for the second round of grants wil be accepted until Nov. 2, 2008 -- on the four topics above and two new ones: eradicating malaria; and creating a vaccine against diarrhea, HIV, malaria, pneumonia and TB.
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