The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges Explorations

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions, is accepting grant proposals. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations, and for-profit companies.

Two-page proposals are being accepted online on the following topics:

· Assess Family Planning Needs, Preferences and Behaviors to Inform Innovations in Contraceptive Technologies and Services

· Develop Novel Platforms to Accelerate Contraceptive Drug Discovery

· Design New Analytics Approaches for Malaria Elimination

· Accelerate Development of New Therapies for Childhood Cryptosporidium Infection

· Novel Approaches to Characterizing and Tracking the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance

· Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas

Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million. Full descriptions of the new topics and application instructions are available on the Grand Challenges Explorations Grant Opportunities website.

The application deadline with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is Wednesday 11 May 2016, 11:30 A.M. US Pacific Day Light Time.