http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/Introduction.aspx
The deadline for completed submissions for Round 6 of Grand Challenges
Explorations is November 2, 2010 at 11:30 AM PST.
Topics for Grand Challenges Explorations Round 6 are:
- Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;
- Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;
- The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor
Eradication;
- *Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Health
Conditions;*
- Create New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns.
Rewarding Innovative Ideas in Global Health
One bold idea. That?s all it takes.
Unorthodox thinking is essential to overcoming the most persistent
challenges in global health. Vaccines were first developed over 200 years
ago because revolutionary thinkers took an entirely new approach to
preventing disease.
Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage
scientists worldwide to expand the pipeline of ideas to fight our greatest
health challenges.
Launched in 2008, Grand Challenge Explorations grants have already been
awarded to 340 researchers from 34 countries.
Open to All Disciplines: Anyone Can Apply
The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to
tenured professor, and from any organization ? colleges and universities,
government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and
for-profit companies.
Agile, Accelerated Grant-Making
The initiative uses an agile, accelerated grant-making process with short
two-page applications and no preliminary data required. Applications are
submitted online, and winning grants are chosen approximately 4 months from
the submission deadline.
Initial grants of $100,000 are awarded two times a year. Successful projects
have the opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to $1 million.
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