The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are seeking innovative ideas to assess the burden of disease, to develop better vaccines, and to develop new diagnostics, specifically to:
- Develop methods for simple preparation and preservation of stool samples for room-temperature transport and remote-analysis;
- Better understand cause of death from tissue samples;
- Develop point-of-care nucleic acid diagnostics to below $2 per test;
- Enable self-testing for cervical cancer;
- Develop malaria diagnostics to accelerate toward eradication.
- Clearly describe how the idea, if successful, would help solve one of the challenges described in the call;
- Be directly relevant to the developing world (e.g. low-cost, useful across multiple geographical and cultural settings, self-sustaining);
- Have a clear and testable hypothesis and include an associated plan for how the idea would be tested or validated;
- Yield interpretable and unambiguous data in Phase I, in order to be considered for Phase II funding
The Details
Deadline - 11 May 2016
Full details - http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/explore-new-solutions-global-health-priority-areas-round-17
FAQs - http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant-opportunities/faq/gce
