Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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• Two Pore Guys Receives $2.8M Grant to Develop Sensitive, Low-Cost Molecular Diagnostic Tests for Tuberculosis

  11/19/2018

  Goal of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant Is to Improve TB Care in Resource-Poor Settings

• Biological Dynamics Awarded Grant to Develop the Next Generation of Smartphone-Enabled Tuberculosis Tests

  11/8/2018

  Grant to help address the pressing need of reducing the burden of tuberculosis (TB) in resource-poor settings

• Spencer Trask, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF Support 6th Annual World Polio Day

  10/24/2018

  Spencer Trask & Co., a privately held advanced technology development firm, joins UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as sponsor of World Polio Day on Oct. 24, 2018. This is the sixth year Rotary International is producing the event to raise awareness for the global eradication of polio.

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  19 (at Least!) of TIME Magazine’s 50 Most Influential Healthcare People Have Biopharma Ties

  10/19/2018

  TIME Magazine came out with a list of the 50 most influential people in healthcare, dubbed The Health Care 50. A look through the list shows just how many ties and connections—as well as influence—this group has on the biopharma industry.

• Oxitec to Develop 2nd Friendly™ Mosquito Strain Designed to Combat Malaria-Spreading Mosquitoes

  10/18/2018

  Expanded collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will leverage Oxitec's Friendly™ biological engineering platform to develop a self-limiting Anopheles stephensi strain to help combat malaria in India, Middle East and the Horn of Africa 

• Premise Data selected to monitor family planning and vaccination services in Nigeria

  10/16/2018

  Premise partners with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to demonstrate utility of crowdsourced public health data

• Gates Foundation Poll Finds Young People More Optimistic About Future Than Older Generations; Optimism Highest in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries

  9/24/2018

  Goalkeepers Global Youth Poll reinforces role of youth in advancing the Global Goals

• GeoVax Comments on Recent Vaccine Development Study Funded by the Gates Foundation

  9/19/2018

  Research Article Describes Inadequate Funding Levels for Vaccines Against HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis

• Gates Foundation Report Says Demographic Trends Threaten Global Progress, Calls for Increased Focus on Health and Education in Poorest Countries

  9/18/2018

  Bill and Melinda Gates say investing in young people could unlock productivity and innovation

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  Elevian Launches to Join Numerous Companies Focused on Longevity and Aging

  9/10/2018

  In another example of companies focused on aging-related diseases, Elevian launched with $5.5 million in seed funding. Elevian’s founders came out of Stanford and then Harvard, focused on regenerative effects of “young blood.”

• Premise Data Tapped to Collect Ground Truth on Health Facilities Worldwide

  9/5/2018

  Premise to empower Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with real-time data in eleven countries to support service delivery optimization

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  A Roundup of Biopharma Companies that Announced Hiring Trends So Far this Year

  8/9/2018

  Here’s a roundup of biopharma companies that have announced hiring trends since the beginning of the year.

• Oxitec to Apply New Generation of Self-limiting Mosquito Technology to Malaria-spreading Mosquitoes

  6/19/2018

  Oxitec, Ltd. announced it is entering into a cooperative agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ("BMGF") to develop a new strain of Oxitec's self-limiting Friendly(TM) Mosquitoes to combat a mosquito species that spreads malaria in the Western Hemisphere.

• Evolve BioSystems Announces $40 Million Series C Financing to Expand its Flagship Infant Probiotic Product Evivo

  6/13/2018

  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Li Ka Shing Foundation Lead New Funding Round to Expand Groundbreaking Progress in Restoring Infant Gut Microbiome and to Lay a Global Foundation for Long-Term Nutritional and Immune Health

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  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Spins Out a Nonprofit Biotech Company

  6/8/2018

  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spun off a biotech company called The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (MRI) located in Boston. Although it found its temporary space in Cambridge, Massachusetts in January, it “officially” launched Thursday at the BIO International Convent...

• ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com Announces Partnerships with Global Academic Research Funders to Expand Researchers' Access to Patient-level Clinical Trial Data

  4/23/2018

  First-in-class online resource giving researchers access to patient-level clinical trial data from 14 of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies across multiple therapeutic areas, today announced new strategic collaborations with four major non-profit partners

• Novartis Forms Alliance to Develop Medicines for Treating Infectious Diarrheal Disease

  2/14/2018

  Novartis receives funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for further development of Novartis drug candidate KDU731 for the treatment of cryptosporidiosis.

• Inovio and The Wistar Institute Receive More Than $4.6M in R&D Funding to Advance Vaccines Against Tuberculosis & Malaria

  2/12/2018

  The grants were from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the (NIH.

• Hamlyn Centre Announces Grant From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Development of Dietary Intake Monitoring Technology

  1/23/2018

  The grant of $1.5M will fund key investigation projects until April 2020, supporting the research and development of passive dietary intake monitoring tools and wearables that can support nutritional studies in low and middle-income countries.  

• Akonni Biosystems Awarded Grant to Evaluate the TruDiagnosis Molecular Diagnostics Platform for Use in Low Resource Settings

  10/17/2017

  Akonni Biosystems today announced it was chosen as a recipient for a challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.