[CCoE Notice] Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities - New Grand Challenges Explorations Topics

[Fritz Claydon]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for
Round 7 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage
innovative and unconventional global health 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 19, 2011 on the
following topics:

* Explore Nutrition for Healthy Growth of Infants and Children
* Apply Synthetic Biology to Global Health Challenges
* The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Innovative Ways to Accelerate, Sustain, and
Monitor Eradication
* Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies
* Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection
* Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Solutions for Improved Uptake and
Coverage of Childhood Vaccinations

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: www.grandchallenges.org/gce/

We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world
and from all disciplines. If you have a great idea, apply. If you know
someone else who may have a great idea, please forward this message.

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


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Fritz Claydon Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Dean of Administration and Research
University of Houston
Cullen College of Engineering
713.743.4204
fclaydon at uh.edu

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