Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Gates Foundation commits up to $90M for Inventprise pneumococcal vax trials
Vaccine biotech Inventprise has developed technology that offers broader protection than currently available products. Its lead program, a pneumococcal vaccine candidate, is being readied for tests in humans and it now has a financial commitment of up to $90 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
VisualDx gets Gates grant to build offline diagnostic tool
VisualDx got a grant for $655,535 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to build a tool that can allow health workers to diagnose skin conditions without a signal. The app uses images and a series of questions to point users toward a diagnosis.
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Biomatics Capital raises $300M for new fund, hires partner from Gates Foundation
The new fund follows a $200 million fund raised two years ago and will go to diagnostics, therapeutics, R&D and clinical care. New partner Mike Pool will be focused on neuroscience investments.
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Morning Read: Takeda receives $38M from Bill and Melinda Gates for low-cost polio vaccine
Also, research scientists have developed a way to deliver drugs through the placenta and what risks does the UK life science community face with an exit from the European Union?
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Science advisor to Bill Gates launches new firm Biomatics Capital Partners, raising $150M fund
The new Seattle-based firm Biomatics Capital Partners is led by Boris Nikolic, a science advisor to Bill Gates. It is raising $150 million.
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Gates-backed NYC startup plumbs soil bacteria for tuberculosis therapy
The startup’s underlying research has been backed by the Gates Foundation since 2014.
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation putting $75M toward disease surveillance, Roche gets FDA approval for venetoclax (Morning Read)
TOP STORIES The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is investing up to $75 million in […]