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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) is launching a new Grand Challenge: New Interventions for Global Health.

This challenge focuses on calls for innovative concepts for safe, effective, affordable and widely utilized interventions, such as vaccines and therapeutics, with the potential to protect against the acquisition, progression or transmission of infectious diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest.

This request for proposals will fund grants to collaborations comprised of teams at Chinese-based institutions and those based outside of China. Each grant must be for four years, and can be up to USD $1,000,000.

Full details of these awards are available on the Grand Challenges website here.

Any Dalhousie faculty member interested in this opportunity is asked to contact the International Research Facilitator (jennifer.morawiecki@dal.ca) as soon as possible, for more information and support in developing an application.

Deadline: 15 March 2016