The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the opening of Round 6 of Grand Challenges Explorations, described as a US$100 million grant initiative to encourage bold and unconventional global health solutions. Proposals are being accepted until November 2, 2010. Grand Challenges Explorations “offers researchers the chance to win US$100,000 grants to foster innovative projects that could transform health in developing countries. The initiative focuses on areas where creative, unorthodox thinking is most urgently needed. For this round, applicants are asked to focus their proposals on these five topic areas:

– Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;

– Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;

– Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions;

– Create New Technologies for the Health of Mothers and Newborns;

– The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/grand-challenges-explorations-round-six-100819.aspx