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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In case you didn’t receive this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [mailto:gates@notifications.gatesfoundation.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 10, 2012 3:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> LARKINS@AG.ARIZONA.EDU<br><b>Subject:</b> Gates foundation grant opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=611 style='width:458.25pt'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:10.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/PublishingImages/e-mail-header-generic.gif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:10.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Dear Colleagues: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:10.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting innovators to apply for two grant opportunities: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions, is now accepting grant proposals for its latest application round. 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.2pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>Proposals are being accepted online until May 15, 2012 on the following topics: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#392D1C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>New Approaches for the Interrogation of Anti-malarial Compounds<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#392D1C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>Aid is Working. Tell the World<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#392D1C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>Design New Approaches to Optimize Immunization Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#392D1C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#392D1C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses From Field to Market<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>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: <a href="http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations" target="_blank">www.grandchallenges.org/explorations</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.2pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>If you have questions regarding this grant opportunity, please email us at <a href="mailto:GCEHelp@gatesfoundation.org">GCEHelp@gatesfoundation.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>The HIV Diagnostics team is now accepting Letters of Inquiry for the identification of novel biomarkers that can be used effectively to measure HIV incidence at the population level. We are looking for biomarkers that could be used alone or in combination, and that are at the initial development stage. 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.2pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'><br>Proposals are being accepted online until Friday, May 18, 2012 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. Individual grants will not exceed US $1 million. A full description of the new topic and application instructions are available at <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/hivaids/Pages/loi-biomarkers-hiv-incidence-measurement.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.gatesfoundation.org/hivaids/Pages/loi-biomarkers-hiv-incidence-measurement.aspx</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.2pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>If you have questions regarding this grant opportunity please email us at <a href="mailto:HIVDiagnostics@gatesfoundation.org">HIVDiagnostics@gatesfoundation.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.2pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#392D1C'>We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world and from all disciplines. If you have a great idea, please apply. 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