Funding-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

We are now accepting grant proposals for Round 9 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 May 15^th, 2012 on the following topics:     

   Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses From Field to Market (The description can be found here: http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Topics/Pages/ProtectPlantCropsRound9.aspx)

   Design new approaches to optimize immunization systems

   Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas

   New Approaches for the Interrogation of Anti-malarial Compounds

   Aid is Working. Tell the World.

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: http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/TopicsOverview.aspx

We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world and from all disciplines, and I encourage you to submit a proposal letting us know about your great idea. If you would, please forward this message to relevant networks of which you may be a part, and to any individuals you think may be interested.

Sincere thanks to those of you who received and forwarded a similar message promoting Round 8 last year. We are excited about the proposals we will be funding this spring (to be made public May 1^st), and are looking forward with anticipation to the innovative and transformative ideas we hope to receive from Round 9.