GHIT Joins Gates Foundation In Grand Challenge Against NTDs, Pledges Initial $4M For Drug, Vaccine Development

SciDev.Net: Japan joins Gates’s Grand Challenge on tropical diseases
“The Gates Foundation and Japan [on Thursday] launched a Grand Challenge to tackle neglected diseases, with an initial funding pledge of U.S. $4 million supplied jointly with Japanese companies. … The Tokyo-based Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, of which the [Gates F]oundation is already a partner, will coordinate research on visceral leishmaniasis, elephantiasis, and Chagas disease. This is the first time Japan has become involved in the Grand Challenges program…” (Sharma, 2/5).

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