The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative is focused on engaging creative minds to work on scientific and technological breakthroughs for the world’s most pressing health problems. Grand Challenges Explorations is a grant program within the initiative that fosters innovative, early-stage research to expand the pipeline of ideas that can lead to those much needed global health and development solutions.

New Point-of-Care Diagnostics Grants Awarded

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Grand Challenges Canada has announced 22 new grants through the Grand Challenges in Global Health program to fund innovative ideas for diagnostics in the developing world. These new projects will focus on the development of technologies that could allow health workers to rapidly diagnose diseases at the point-of-care in remote and impoverished settings. To read more about these projects, visit Grand Challenges in Global Health Grants Awarded.