Grand Challenges Explorations - Winners Announced May 9, 2012

Dear Colleagues:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced over 100 new grants to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve global health and development. The press release is available at www.grandchallenges.org/about/Newsroom/Pages/GCERound8Grants.aspx   

The grants of US$100,000 each will be made to investigators from 19 countries and 6 continents and mark the eighth round of funding from Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative which seeks to help lower the barriers for testing innovative ideas in global health and development. Additionally, the Gates Foundation announced continued funding of up to US$1 million each for six existing Grand Challenges Explorations projects to enable grantees to advance their work.  

Grant proposals for Round 9 are being accepted online until May 15, 2012 on the following topics:

 * New Approaches for the Interrogation of Anti-malarial Compounds
 * Aid is Working. Tell the World
 * Design New Approaches to Optimize Immunization Systems
 * Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas
 * Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses From Field to Market

For detailed application instructions, please visit http://response.notifications.gatesfoundation.org/t?ctl=41FB00E:CFDB669003DACDBD8F5DE6F9F254F23C6906E666D676809E&

Thank you for your support and continued commitment to solving the world's greatest health and development challenges.

The Grand Challenges Explorations Team

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