Deadline: 14 March 2016
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (the Gates Foundation) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) is seeking applications for a Grand Challenge-New Interventions for Global Health that 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. The collaborations between groups must be substantive in that they should propose continuous and stable cooperation on the proposed project, the groups should complement each other with their respective strengths and expertise, and the contributions between groups should be roughly equal.
Goals
- To solicit novel concepts and candidates for vaccines that can serve as transformative tools in the efforts to prevent, control or eliminate diseases of our interest.
- To induce unnatural immunity to pathogens to achieve long-lasting immunity across multiple strains, species and/or sub-species, utilizing recent advances made in structural biology, bioinformatics and molecular immunology.
- To enable a path to move the best vaccine concepts and candidates into clinical development.
- To explore new therapeutic options to treat infectious diseases and other conditions that disproportionately burden those living in low-resource settings.
- Target specific pathogen populations that are either bottlenecks in the pathogen’s life-cycle or that are significant contributors to disease or transmission, but may be difficult to treat with current agents.
Grant Information: Each grant must be for four years, and can be up to USD $1,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- This request for proposals will fund grants to collaborations comprised of teams at Chinese-based institutions and those based outside of China.
- Applications are accepted from individuals at both private and public organizations.
- Applications should be in English.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit Grand Challenges China.