Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Grand Challenge Partners Commit to Innovation with New Investments in Breakthrough Science

A consortium of partners including Brazil, Canada, India, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States will fund a new phase of Grand Challenge initiatives 

Female Condoms, Cows that Smell Like Humans, and Touch-Screen Patient Feedback Tools Among New Gates-Funded Projects

The Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations initiative rewards bold ideas to tackle global health and development challenges

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Opens Application Round 13 of Grand Challenges Explorations

SEATTLE (March 4, 2014) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it is accepting applications for Round 13 of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, which seeks innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing global health and development problems. Great ideas come from everywhere, and grants have been awarded for over 900 projects in over 50 countries to date.

Gates Foundation Awards Grants to Develop Urine Powered Fuel Cells, Waterless Toilets and Solar Steam Sterilizers

SEATTLE (December 19, 2013) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced Phase II winners as part of its Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) initiative focused on water, sanitation and hygiene, including one grant to do further research on microbial fuel cells which could power cellphones with urine.

The Next Grand Challenge in India: Reinvent the Toilet 

Indian Ministry of Science and Technology and the Bill & MelindaGates Foundation to invest US$2 million to support innovative projects todevelop a “Next Generation Toilet”

Show Us a Great Idea, We’ll Show You $100,000

$100,000 Grants Available for New Ideas to: Encourage The World’s Poorest People to Seek Health Care, Develop a New Condom, and  Reduce Diarrhea, One of the Biggest Killers of Children on the Planet

Is it Possible to Identify Illness in Newborns from their Cry?

This is one of many bold ideas attracting investment from the Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations initiative to address global health and development challenges

The Government of India and the Gates Foundation Form Grand Challenges India

A New Partnership to Direct Innovation and SolveKey Health and Development Problems