Round 10 of Grand Challenges Explorations

Dear Colleagues:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 10 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.

Two-page grant proposals are being accepted online until November 7, 2012 on the following topics:

* Labor Saving Innovations for Women Smallholder Farmers

* New Approaches in Model Systems, Diagnostics, and Drugs for Specific Neglected Tropical Diseases

* 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 topics and application instructions are available at: www.grandchallenges.org/gce

To learn more about the Grand Challenges Explorations program and the Grand Challenges in Global Health program:

* View our Interactive Map that gives information on 813 grants that have been awarded for projects in 49 countries: www.grandchallenges.org/Pages/GrantsMap.aspx

* Meet the Grand Challenges community through videos at www.grandchallenges.org/Pages/VideoGalleries.aspx and project slideshows at www.grandchallenges.org/Pages/PhotoGalleries.aspx

We look forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world and from all disciplines. If you have a great idea, apply here: www.grandchallenges.org/gce. If you know someone who may have a great idea, please forward this message.

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

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Nova rodada de financiamento da Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 5 of Grand Challenges Explorations, a US $100 million initiative to encourage unconventional global health solutions. Anyone can apply, regardless of education or experience level.

Grant proposals are being accepted online at http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations until May 19,2010, on the following topics:

New!   Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions
NEW!   Create New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns
      Create New Technologies for Contraception
      Create New Ways to Protect Against Infectious Diseases

Initial grants will be $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to $1 million US Dollars.  Full descriptions of the new topics and application instructions are available at http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations.

We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from scientists around the world and from all scientific disciplines. If you don't submit a proposal yourself, we hope you will forward this message to someone else who might be interested.

Gates Foundation estimula jovens investigadores

As aprovações de projetos pela Gates Foundation, além da preferencia pelas idéias mais inovadoras, indicada na chamada, mostra também um claro estímulo aos pesquisadores jovens. O artigo How Bill Gates is turning the tables in favour of young researchers do Eureka Zone do Times on line chamou a atenção para esta tendência.

O texto é ilustrado por um gráfico que demonstra a maior taxa de aprovação por pesquisadores mais jovens.

Veja abaixo alguns dos projeos aprovados, e publicados na matéria do Times. A lista completa por ser vista no site do Grand Challenges.

“Andrew Fung of University of California, Los Angeles: develop chewing gum that can detect malaria biomarkers in saliva. Simple means of identifying malaria sufferers through act of chewing by picking up traces of antigens produced in reaction to the disease, which can permeate through to body fluids other than blood.

Ranjan Nanda of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology in India: create a handheld “electronic nose” that analyzes breath samples to diagnose tuberculosis. Using evidence of animals being able to smell tuberculosis, and anecdotal reports of smell changes in clinics, as starting point for developing means of detecting key volatile compounds that signal disease.

Udantha Abeyratne of the University of Queensland in Australia: Use mobile phones to diagnose pneumonia. Devise means of using mobile phones and mp3 players to identify pneumonia cases with a sophisticated acoustic analysis of recorded cough sounds and breathing patterns.

Margaret Njoroge of Med Biotech Laboratories in Uganda: develop a vaccine that mothers pass on to babies. Use an intranasal vaccine designed to induce antibodies against malaria in breast milk and confer immunity on to their babies when they are suckled

Steven Maranz of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York: test the ability of chocolate compound to keep malaria at bay. Develop popular means of enhancing action of drugs with use of the compound flavonol, found in chocolate, to stimulate the immune system”

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