[Plsfaculty] FW: Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities - New Grand Challenges Explorations Topics

[Donna-Rae Marquez]

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Subject: FW: Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities - New Grand Challenges
Explorations Topics

 

Dear colleagues:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for
Round 8 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.

Grant proposals are being accepted online until November 17, 2011 on the
following topics:

   NEW - Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses From Field to Market

   NEW - Design new approaches to optimize immunization systems 

   NEW - Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas 

   Explore Nutrition for Healthy Growth of Infants and Children 

   Apply Synthetic Biology to Global Health Challenges

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 new topics and application instructions are
available at: www.grandchallenges.org/r8_gce

We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world
and from all disciplines. If you have a great idea, apply. If you know
someone else who may have a great idea, please forward this message.

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

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

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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.

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