Fact: You have ten days to apply for a $100,000 grant from the Gates Foundation, for your innovative idea in global health research. It’s a surprisingly simple application process, but you’d better get cracking!
Analysis: Last night the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the 104 individual winners of their Round 1 funding in the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, which “funds research on scientific problems that, if solved, could lead to advances against multiple diseases.”
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