Background
Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems.
Opportunity
1) Grand Challenges Explorations is seeking innovative global health and development solutions and is now accepting proposals for its latest application round. 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.
Proposals are being accepted online until November 11, 2015 for the following challenges:
- Novel Approaches to Characterizing and Tracking the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance
- Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas
- Addressing Newborn and Infant Gut Health Through Bacteriophage-Mediated Microbiome Engineering
- Explore New Ways to Measure Delivery and Use of Digital Financial Services Data
2) New Interventions for Global Health: Vaccine Manufacturing. This challenge focuses on innovations in vaccine manufacturing platforms designed to lower production cost for vaccines that target diseases of great global burden and that are among the most costly to produce with current technologies.
Letters of Intent will be accepted until November 5, 2015. Read more about this grant opportunity here.
3) In addition, the African Academy of Sciences and the New Partnership for African Development have launched Grand Challenges Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. This program joins others within the Grand Challenges family of grant programs supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners. Grand Challenges Africa will build on the global success of Grand Challenges programs in India, Brazil, and South Africa, as well as the strong base of Africa Grand Challenges grantees already funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and USAID. For more information please visit AAS.
Eligibility
Grand Challenges is open to both foreign and domestic organizations, including non-profit organizations, for-profit companies, international organizations, government agencies and academic institutions.
Funding Available
- Maximum amount: 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.
Indirect costs: Please note that indirect costs are not allowed under GCE Phase I grants. Please contact your Research Facilitator for assistance in budget building, and Carleton’s Indirect Cost Policy for more information.
Full Details
- Full details: http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/
Deadlines
CURO Checklist and Instructions for faculty submissions
| Full application: | |
| CURO Internal Deadline for Review | November 3, 2015 |
| CURO Checklist Deadline (Mandatory) | November 10, 2015 |
| Full application submission to sponsor | November 11, 2015 |
Internal Contacts
If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact the appropriate Research Facilitator for help with proposal development and substantive review.