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Gates Foundation Grants Support Unusual Research
Oct. 20, 2009
By Donna Gordon Blankinship
What do chewing gum, chocolate and malaria have to do with each other? Not much, unless you're a young scientist exploring unusual ways to think about world health.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced new grants of $100,000 each for 76 unconventional approaches to world problems.
One will help a UCLA doctoral candidate explore the idea of using chewing gum to detect malaria biomarkers in saliva. Another will give a researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York the money he needs to test chocolate for combatting the malaria parasite.
© 2009 The Associated Press
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category: Member Organization News : Awards & Grants
contributed by Liza Nanni on 21 October 2009
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