The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the next stage of Grand Challenges Explorations, with “nine outstanding Grand Challenges Explorations grantees have received new funding of up to $1 million each to support continued research on their innovative work.” The Foundation said these projects “have shown success during their initial grant period and align with the foundation’s strategic global health priorities, including vaccines, family health, and infectious disease. The grantees come from diverse disciplines and are at various stages in their careers, but share a common goal—to make breakthrough advances that lead to new solutions to improve health worldwide.”

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