JUNE 29, 2011 Funding Announced for Development of a Vaccine for Disease Affecting Global Poor Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide Sabin Vaccine Institute with $12 million to fund multiple phase 1 clinical trials and further product development for human hookworm vaccine
DECEMBER 13, 2010 Fight against neglected diseases sets sights on parasites transmitted by livestock The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) will research how efforts to combat the tapeworm infection cysticercosis can be integrated into existing prevention programmes.
FEBRUARY 01, 2010 Statement on the Obama Administration’s FY2011 Budget Request for Global Health - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation SEATTLE -- We commend the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for international affairs, which includes vital support for the global health programs that represent America’s best investments for saving lives.
JANUARY 28, 2010 WUSTL Receives Global Health Grant Toward Elimination of Tropical Diseases | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ST. LOUIS -- Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a five-year, $13 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve efforts to eliminate two parasitic diseases, elephantiasis and river blindness. These diseases belong to a group of infections known as neglected tropical diseases, which collectively have a health impact comparable to HIV and malaria.
JANUARY 15, 2010 Glasgow Receives Grant to Study Sleeping Sickness | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation GLASGOW, Scotland -- The University of Glasgow has received a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further the treatment of sleeping sickness, otherwise known as Human African Trypanosomasis.
MAY 18, 2009 London School Wins 2009 Annual Gates Award for Global Health — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation LONDON -- The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has won the Gates Award for Global Health, and will receive $1 million in prize money.
FEBRUARY 04, 2009 Funding for Neglected Diseases Increases to $2.5 Billion, But Big Killer Diseases Miss Out - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Results of first ever global survey of public and private investment into R&D for neglected diseases
JANUARY 30, 2009 Bill and Melinda Gates Urge Global Leaders to Maintain Foreign Aid Announce global campaign to leverage new investments to greatly reduce neglected tropical diseases by 2020