There are just two weeks left to apply for the latest Round of Gates Foundation grants opportunities, focusing on new engineering and technology-driven approaches to global health issues. Now is the time to apply your engineering expertise to help overcome important global health challenges. This Round of grant opportunities is part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's ongoing Grand Challenges Explorations initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health solutions.
The short, two-page proposals for initial grants of US $100,000 require no preliminary data. Funded projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.
Grant proposals are being accepted online until November 2, 2010 at 11:30 AM US Pacific Time on the following topics:
* The Poliovirus Endgame: Novel Methods to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication
* Sanitation Technologies: Next Generation Decentralized Solutions
* HIV Infection: New Technology-Driven Approaches for a Cure
* New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns
* Low-Cost Cell Phone-based Applications for Priority Global Health Diseases
We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world, from all disciplines, and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
If you have a great idea, apply now. If you know someone who may have a great idea, please forward this message. We also encourage you to sign up to receive email updates on this and future grant opportunities.
Thank you for your commitment to solving the world's greatest health challenges.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people - especially those with the fewest resources - have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
