Unusual Health Research Focus of Small Gates Foundation Grants
May 5, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday awarded 81 small grants designed to promote innovative, unconventional approaches to health issues, reports the Associated Press.
The five-year, $100,000 grants will support such projects as exploring the use of tomatoes as a vehicle for antiviral drugs, treating skin with lasers to enhance the efficacy of vaccinations, and suppressing malaria-carrying mosquitoes’ sense of smell to prevent them from sniffing out humans as a source of blood.
Also: Jeff Raikes, the Gates foundation’s chief executive, outlined plans on Monday to spend $73-million over the next five years to help impoverished farmers in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the Associated Press says.
