Reminder: Grand Challenges Explorations Round 7 Closes 19th May

Round 7 of Grand Challenges Explorations - an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health solutions, organised by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will close on 19 May, 2011 at 11:30 am Pacific Daylight Time on the following topics:              

• Explore Nutrition for Healthy Growth of Infants and Children
• Apply Synthetic Biology to Global Health Challenges
• The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Innovative Ways to Accelerate, Sustain, and Monitor Eradication
• Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies
• Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection
• Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Solutions for Improved Uptake and Coverage of Childhood Vaccinations

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 at http://www.grandchallenges.org/gce/