Grand Challenges Explorations: Now Accepting Applications

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Grand Challenges Explorations. A $100 million initiative, the program intends to help scientists pursue innovative ideas for solving major global health problems.

 Proposals will be accepted until May 30, 2008 on the following topics:

• ·          Creating new ways to protect against infectious diseases

• ·          Creating drugs or delivery systems that limit the emergence of resistance

• ·          Creating new ways to prevent or cure HIV infection

• ·          Exploring the basis for latency in TB

Initial grants will be $100,000 each, and projects showing success will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of $1 million or more. Full descriptions of the topics and application instructions are available at http://www.gcgh.org/explorations