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Follow UsGrand Challenges Explorations - Round 6 now open
Proposals are invited from all disciplines.
Image: World Bank
Image: World Bank
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 6 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level, in any discipline, and from any organisation, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organisations and for profit companies around the world.
Grant proposals are being accepted online until November 2, 2010 on the following topics:
- The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication
- Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies
- Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection
- Create New Technologies to improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns
- Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Diseases
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
See also
Closing date: 21 October 2010
The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) have announced a commitment to jointly-fund research into chronic non-communicable diseases. more
The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) have announced a commitment to jointly-fund research into chronic non-communicable diseases. more
Closing date: 8 October 2010
This scheme provides researchers from low- and middle-income countries - who are at an early stage in the establishment of their research careers - with opportunities for research experience and high-quality research training relevant to health in low- and middle-income countries. more
This scheme provides researchers from low- and middle-income countries - who are at an early stage in the establishment of their research careers - with opportunities for research experience and high-quality research training relevant to health in low- and middle-income countries. more
