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Grand Challenges Canada and the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are partnering on an initiative, directed primarily at researchers in low- and middle-income countries, that seeks to create a new class of point-of-care (POC) diagnostics that will be easy to use, low cost, multiplexed and able to assess disease stage and provide information on prognosis. The ultimate aim of these new tools is to achieve significant positive health impacts and rapid uptake in resource-poor settings. The main participants in this Phase I will be Component Builders who will advance the state of the art in component technologies. In a subsequent Request for Proposal (RFP) for Phase II, in addition to Component Builders, the key participants will be System Integrators who will take the best available component technologies and integrate them into viable POC diagnostic platforms. A distinguishing feature in this RFP is its targeting primarily to researchers from, low- and middle-income countries, and the proposed funding of research to understand the biological, social, and environmental factors that affect implementation and scaling up of the POC technologies to achieve sustained health improvements in the “real world.” In addition to the $30 million USD announced in December 2009 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this RFP adds up to $12 million Canadian to be awarded over three years in this Phase I. The topic areas are:
You can find detailed information here:  Grand Challenges Canada (776.74 kB)Referrer: Nakagawa, Dr Jun (WPRO) Source: Grand Challenges Canada Did you find this page useful for your work?
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