盖茨基金会启动“探索大挑战”资助计划

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盖茨基金会启动“探索大挑战”资助计划

• 作者：盖茨基金会 | 来源：NGO互动网
• 发布时间：2009-09-09 05:35:25 | 点击数量：132

        比尔及梅琳达.盖茨基金会自2008年开始“探索大挑战（Grand Challenges Explorations）”资助计划，在这个项目的第二年，第二轮的探索大挑战计划开始接受新项目的申请，项目将赞助拥有大胆创新思想甚至是非正统思想的创新研究项目。


“探索大挑战”活动为期五年，每年两轮，资助总额达一亿美元。它属于盖茨基金会支持的“全球健康大挑战”计划的一部分，旨在鼓励研究人员尝试有可能改善全球健康面貌的创新方案，从而推动全球健康研发领域的创新。


首轮（2008年）接受探索大挑战的研究项目主要集中在传染病研究领域，如HIV，疟疾和结核病。


今年，探索大挑战项目新开一个领域的资助计划，那就是：避孕。该项目的主要目的是开发创新技术来避免意外妊娠。据盖茨基金网站简介文字表示：希望科学家开发出不同常规的、大胆的、有创意的避孕新技术。让人类可更自由的掌握人生的自由权。


据介绍，可能参加申请的有：阻止排卵的避孕技术、阻止精子传递的避孕技术以及利用免疫学的避孕方式。


与先前的挑战资助计划一样，成功申请者在第一年可获得10万美金的启动资金，在第二年经过评审后，如果具有巨大的潜力将获得余下的百万美金。


新项目的申请者可在11月2日前递交申请，明年5月将公布获奖名单。

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Proposals Sought for Round 4 of Grand Challenges Explorations
$100,000 grants available for bold, unconventional ideas to address global health issues
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Phone: +1.206.709.3400
Email: media@gatesfoundation.org
   

SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it is now accepting proposals for Round 4 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage bold and unconventional research on new global health solutions. Proposals are being accepted through November 2, 2009.
The program offers scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs the chance to earn $100,000 grants to further their work. Projects showing success will have the opportunity to receive additional funding up to $1 million.

The topic areas for which proposals are being accepted for this round are:

•Create New Ways to Protect Against Infectious Disease;
•Create New Technologies for Contraception;
•Create New Ways to Induce and Measure Mucosal Immunity;
•Create Low-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health Conditions.
One of the primary objectives of Grand Challenges Explorations is to involve scientists around the world who do not typically work in the health field and may have never applied for a grant before. This includes those with innovative ideas in Africa, Asia, and other parts of the developing world; people working in the private sector; and young investigators.
Some of the projects that have thus far received Grand Challenges Explorations funding include altering the malaria parasite genome to prevent mutations that result in drug resistance, using anaerobic gas to kill tuberculosis bacteria without harming surrounding tissue, and studying whether illuminating skin with a targeted laser before administering a vaccine can enhance immune response.

Grand Challenges Explorations uses an online, accelerated grant-making process. Applications are two pages, and preliminary data about the proposed research are not required. Full descriptions of the topic areas and the online application tool are available at the Grand Challenges in Global Health web site.

The foundation and an independent group of reviewers will select the most innovative proposals, and grants will be awarded within approximately four months from the proposal submission deadline.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.