Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Emory's Global Health Institute Granted $20 million by Gates
Emory must submit $55 million itself for the institute, to be matched by outside funding -- which has just got a $20 million boost from the Gates foundation.
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Emory's Global Health Institute aims to "foster research, training and service partnerships that promote health, prevent disease, and facilitate health care treatment in low and moderate resource areas of the world."
At a press conference Wednesday, the new institute, with a total budget of $110 million, highlighted three programs of the type they fund. First, a program by an Emory chemist to train South African scientists in drug R&D. Second, a similar project in New Delhi aimed at discovering new vaccines. And, and expanded research/capacity building/training/exchange program with The National Institutes of Public Health in Mexico. As reported by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Emory must submit $55 million itself for the institute, to be matched by outside funding -- which has just got a $20 million boost from the Gates foundation. "Gates" at Emory. . . get it?! Ha ha!
