London School wins 2009 annual Gates Award for Global Health (PRESS RELEASE), May 18, 2009 LONDON -- The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has won the Gates Award for Global Health, and will receive $1 million in prize money. Keywords: Global Health, Europe, Neglected Diseases, Press Release Funding for Neglected Diseases Increases to $2.5 Billion, But Big Killer Diseases Miss Out (PRESS RELEASE), Feb 04, 2009 LONDON -- The first survey of global public and private investment into R&D for new products for neglected diseases has found that funding was over $2.5 billion in 2007. Keywords: Global Health, Global, Neglected Diseases, Press Release Bill and Melinda Gates Urge Global Leaders to Maintain Foreign Aid (PRESS RELEASE), Jan 30, 2009 DAVOS, Switzerland -- The co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today called on world leaders, corporations, NGOs, and individuals to maintain their commitments to foreign assistance [...] Keywords: Global Health, Neglected Diseases, Press Release UGA Research Foundation receives grant to improve control of schistosomiasis (PRESS RELEASE), Dec 18, 2008 Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia Research Foundation has received a five-year, $18.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research ways to reduce morbidity from schistosomiasis [...] Keywords: Global Health, Africa, Neglected Diseases, Press Release IDRI Awarded Grant to Fight Visceral Leishmaniasis (PRESS RELEASE), Dec 18, 2008 SEATTLE -- IDRI (Infectious Disease Research Institute) today announced it has received a 3-year, $7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop [...] Keywords: Global Health, Africa, Neglected Diseases, Press Release Guinea Worm Cases Hit All-Time Low (PRESS RELEASE), Dec 05, 2008 ATLANTA -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced today that cases of Guinea worm disease have reached an all-time low with fewer than 5,000 estimated cases remaining worldwide. Keywords: Global Health, Africa, Neglected Diseases, Press Release Ionian Technologies, Inc., Receives Grant to Develop Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tests for the Developing World (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 17, 2008 SAN DIEGO -- Ionian Technologies, Inc., has received a $665,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop [...] Keywords: Global Health, Global, Neglected Diseases, Tuberculosis, Press Release Pioneering Eye Surgery Network Receives 2008 Gates Award for Global Health (PRESS RELEASE), May 21, 2008 SEATTLE -- In recognition of its groundbreaking work to prevent debilitating blindness and provide affordable, world-class eye care to the poor, the Aravind Eye Care System, based in Tamil Nadu, India, has won the 2008 Gates Award for Global Health. Keywords: Global Health, Asia, Neglected Diseases, Press Release Statement on U.S. Effort to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases (PRESS RELEASE), Feb 20, 2008 Keywords: Global Health, Neglected Diseases, Press Release USU Researcher's Dengue Vector Control Project (PRESS RELEASE), Dec 21, 2007 Keywords: Global Health, South America, Asia, Neglected Diseases, Press Release DNDi Receives Grant to Develop New Medicines (PRESS RELEASE), Dec 12, 2007 GENEVA -- The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has received a USD 25.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research and develop new medicines to treat human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) [...] Keywords: Global Health, Africa, Neglected Diseases, Press Release Neglected Tropical Diseases (PRESS RELEASE), Dec 19, 2006 The fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) received a major boost today with the announcement of five grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation totaling $46.7 million. Keywords: Global Health, Global, Neglected Diseases, Press Release $70 Million to Help Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases (PRESS RELEASE), Sep 14, 2006 SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced four grants totaling $68.2 million to help accelerate research on neglected tropical diseases, including hookworm, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis [...] Keywords: Global Health, Global, Neglected Diseases, Press Release Northwestern University Receives Gates Grant (PRESS RELEASE), Aug 16, 2006 EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern University has received a four-year, $4.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and produce affordable diagnostic devices for infectious diseases plaguing developing countries. Keywords: Global Health, Global, Neglected Diseases, Malaria, Pneumonia & Flu, Polio, Tuberculosis, Diarrhea, Press Release Grant Targets New Treatment for African Sleeping Sickness (PRESS RELEASE), May 22, 2006 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a $22.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a pivotal clinical trial of a promising new oral drug for treating African sleeping sickness. Keywords: Global Health, Africa, Neglected Diseases, Press Release 2006 Gates Award for Global Health (PRESS RELEASE), May 15, 2006 SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that The Carter Center has been selected to receive the 2006 Gates Award for Global Health, in recognition of its pioneering work to fight neglected diseases [...] Keywords: Global Health, Global, Neglected Diseases, Press Release Institute for OneWorld Health Receives Multimillion Dollar Grant (PRESS RELEASE), Dec 01, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO -- The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the U.S., today announced that it has received a US$30 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [...] Keywords: Global Health, Asia, Neglected Diseases, Press Release Funding Groundbreaking Research Projects (PRESS RELEASE), Jun 27, 2005 SEATTLE -- The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, a major effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries, today offered 43 grants totaling $436.6 million [...] Keywords: Global Health, Global, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Neglected Diseases, Nutrition, Research & Development, Tuberculosis, Vaccines, Press Release Enlisting Biotechnology Companies to Improve Global Health (PRESS RELEASE), Jun 21, 2005 PHILADELPHIA -- BIO Ventures for Global Health today announced it will expand its efforts to enlist biotechnology companies in the fight to improve global health, with a new $5.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Keywords: Global Health, Global, Neglected Diseases, Press Release PAHEF's Cervical Cancer Prevention Efforts (PRESS RELEASE), Jun 10, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF) has received a $1.4 million grant from the Global Health Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support cervical cancer prevention efforts of the Pan American [...] Keywords: Global Health, South America, Neglected Diseases, Press Release