Bill & Melinda Gates foundation

IDRI Awarded Grant to Fight Visceral Leishmaniasis in Africa

New diagnostic and care management tools are urgently needed to fight one of the most neglected parasitic diseases.

UGA Research Foundation receives grant to improve control of schistosomiasis, a debilitating and neglected tropical disease

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 in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. Researchers will develop and evaluate research-based approaches and diagnostic tools to identify, control and even eliminate schistosomiasis where feasible.

Guinea Worm Cases Hit All-Time Low - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Carter Center, WHO, Gates Foundation, and U.K. Government Commit $55 Million Toward Ultimate Eradication Goal

Ionian Technologies, Inc., Receives Grant to Develop Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tests for the Developing World

SAN DIEGO -- Ionian Technologies, Inc., has received a $665,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for the developing world, using Ionian's proprietary isothermal technology, termed the NEAR Assay.

Pioneering Eye Surgery Network Receives 2008 Gates Award for Global Health

Nonprofit Aravind Eye Care System Wins $1 Million Prize for Preventing and Curing Blindness in India's Poorest Communities

Statement on U.S. Effort to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases

SEATTLE -- Today, President George W. Bush proposed expanding U.S. efforts to fight neglected tropical diseases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In response, Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Program, released the following statement:

USU Researcher's Dengue Vector Control Project - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

ROCKVILLE, MD -- Nicole Achee, Ph.D., a research assistant professor in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, and her team comprised of U.S. and international researchers are undertaking an innovative research project to prevent dengue in Thailand and Peru. Their efforts will be supported by a new $3.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF).

DNDi Receives Grant to Develop New Medicines for Neglected Diseases

GENEVA -- The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has received a $25.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research and develop new medicines to treat human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, and visceral leishmaniasis (VL).