Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Grand Challenges Explorations Workshop
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
UC Davis Conference Center
2nd Floor Conference Room
The Office of Research, Office of University Development, and the Foods for Health Institute are hosting a workshop on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Explorations Round 5.
Grand Challenges Explorations awards of $100,000 support early-stage research projects designed to overcome persistent bottlenecks in creating new tools that can radically improve health in the developing world. Successful projects have the opportunity to receive a Phase II grant of $1 million.
Topics for Round 5 of the Grand Challenges Explorations include:
- Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions
- Create New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns
- Create New Ways to Protect Against Infectious Disease
- Create New Technologies for Contraception
Two-page applications for the awards are due online to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation by noon on May 19th.
The workshop will be held on Friday, April 23rd at 3:00 p.m. in University Development’s large conference room on the second floor of the UC Davis Conference Center (across from the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts).
For more information, please contact Vivian Carmichael, Director of Foundation Relations, (530) 754-4138, vlcarmichael@ucdavis.edu.
