Call for Proposals: Round 6 of Grand Challenges Explorations Grants
Applications for Round 6 will be accepted until November 2, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time.
Topics are presented for each Grand Challenges Explorations round.
The topics for 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.
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.
The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative is jointly administered by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, and the Wellcome Trust.
* For general inquires - including media inquiries - about Grand Challenges in Global Health, please contact us at
grandchallenges@gatesfoundation.org
Phone: 206.709.3400
