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  2. [International] The Gates Foundation has launched five new Grand Challenges - requests for proposals

[International] The Gates Foundation has launched five new Grand Challenges - requests for proposals

Tha Gates Foundation announces five new Grand Challenges (GC) requests for proposals (RFPs). 

Below are the 5 new RFPs. A webinar, to provide more information and answers to your questions, is organised for 4 of them:

"Innovations for Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery"

  • a unique collaboration among three partners, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Wellcome, and the Gates Foundation. Through this GC RFP, the partners are launching a new initiative, the Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery Innovator (Gr-ADI). Gr-ADI will bring together funders, research institutions, and industry partners to address the problem of anti-microbial resistance, now the third leading cause of death globally. This RFP serves as the source of Gr-ADI's first projects and is focused on the discovery of antibiotics with broad spectrum activity against Enterobacteriaceae, using Klebsiella spp. as the pathogen to initiate a discovery program.
  • February 27, 6:00-7:00 AM Pacific Time - webinar link / submit a question

"Accelerating Innovations to Address Heavy Menstrual Bleeding in Women in Low-Resource Settings"

"Enhancing HIV and TB Diagnosis: Adjunct Technologies for Sample Collection and Processing"

"Reducing the Burden of Preeclampsia"

"Innovative Data and Modeling Approaches to Measure Women's Health"

 

More information

  • The deadline for these 5 RFPs is March 25, 11:30 AM Pacific Time
  • Grand Challenges website
  • Contact: EU-team

Grand Challenges programme

Like all Grand Challenges projects over 20-plus years, the newly announced RFPs will foster innovation to address urgent global priorities, and the grantees, funders, and others in the Grand Challenges network will work in the spirit of partnership to maximize their combined impact.
You can read summaries of selected Grand Challenges grants, explore an interactive world map of projects across the Grand Challenges network, and sign up on the Grand Challenges website to receive email updates.

Feb. 13, 2025, 3:05 p.m.