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GRANTEE ANNOUNCEMENT
November 5, 2009 

Keystone Symposia Announces New Three-Year Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Includes efforts to bring in new ideas, expertise from developing-country scientists

SILVERTHORNE, Co. -- Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that it has received a second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund conferences on infectious disease in its “Keystone Symposia Global Health Series.” In 2006, the Colorado, USA-based nonprofit organization received its first three-year grant; the funding for that ended with the October 20-25, 2009 conference on “Overcoming the Crisis of TB and AIDS” in Arusha, Tanzania. The new grant provides $2.7 million over three years – or approximately $900,000 per year.

To read the full press release, visit the Keystone Symposia web site.

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