Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Major awards announced for innovative solutions to prevent infant/maternal deaths

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto Saving Lives at Birth 31 July 2013 Some 22 projects from nine countries: Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Italy, Senegal, Spain, Uganda, UK

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Historic ‘Grand Challenge’ launched: Create low-cost devices for rapid disease diagnosis

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 16-Dec-2011 Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invest almost $32 million in the discovery and development of

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Creating an ‘electronic nose’ to sniff out tuberculosis from a patient’s breath

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 7-Nov-2011 A new hand-held device called the Electronic Nose, which has the potential to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) in symptomatic patients, was

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Smelly socks could be a key to preventing malaria deaths in the developing world

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 13 Jul 11 Fredros Okumu, Tanzania Tanzanian researchers are awarded a two-year grant to further develop a device that uses human foot odor to

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