Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation News

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BioTecNika / Feb 22, 2021

CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to back health research in India. Various technological and scientific collaborations will be initiated to support and promote research conducted and developed in the country.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Newsweek / Feb 22, 2021

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates defended owning a private jet while warning about the dangers of failing to reduce carbon emissions. The Microsoft co-founder said during an interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday that the world needed to bring the amount of emissions from the current amount of 51 billion tons to zero in the next 30 years or there will be severe consequences.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation cgtn.com / Feb 22, 2021

Global medicines company, Novartis and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are joining forces to develop in vivo gene therapy to cure Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). The Gates Foundation will support a research team at the Swiss Pharma dedicated to discovering and developing a one-and-done in vivo

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Crain's New York Business / Feb 22, 2021

Adjuvant Capital, a venture-capital firm in Midtown, announced Thursday that it has raised $300 million for an investment fund dedicated to improving global public health. The fund's lead backer was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-with $75 million invested. Other participants include...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation GeekWire / Feb 22, 2021

Commentary: Jeff Bezos just announced plans to step down as Amazon's CEO. He will remain as executive chairman, the model in vogue for CEO transition. He will continue to be influential in many decisions within the company. But there will be a new CEO starting in the third quarter: Andy Jassy, the long-serving leader of Amazon Web Services.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BioSpace / Feb 22, 2021

Biohaven's proprietary MATE™ conjugation platform has been used to generate a new class of antibody-based therapies to target COVID-19 -BHV-1200, a COVID-19 targeting MATE compound, recently completed in vitro testing that demonstrated activity against SARS-CoV-2 wild-type as well as mutants associated with reduced susceptibility to therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and emerging strains

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation World Health Organization / Feb 22, 2021

New programme makes compensation available to eligible individuals in 92 low- and middle-income countries without need to resort to law courtsThis is the first and only global vaccine injury compensation mechanismThe programme is funded by a small levy on each dose supported by the Gavi COVAX AMC The World Health

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation PRNewswire / Feb 22, 2021

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Education Design Lab, a national nonprofit and leader in the design, implementation, and scaling of new learning models for higher education and the future of work, today announced the launch of a new national program that will lead a design team of leaders from colleges and universities in co-creating the future role of colleges in their communities.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Business Wire / Feb 22, 2021

INDIANAPOLIS--()--Novus Capital, a company focused on sustainability and social equity through technological innovation, announces three new Board Advisors: Trevor Neilson, Rini Greenfield and Phillip Bayt. "One of the key values Novus brings to our startup partners is the depth and diversity of our Board and Board Advisors' expertise," said Bob Laikin, co-founder of Novus Capital.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation UQ News / Feb 22, 2021

Holding off the rise of superbugs could be achieved by 'resuscitating' old antibiotics, with The University of Queensland researchers leading an international project to help combat the growing threat. CARB-X, a global non-profit partnership funding the world's largest antibacterial development pipeline, has funded the $AU2.9m project at UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB).

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The CEO Magazine / Feb 22, 2021

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Founder and CEO of SpaceX and Neuralink, appears to have the future of cryptocurrency bitcoin in his hands. Musk, who also has a baby with Canadian singer Grimes to occupy his time, appears to love sharing his thoughts on his Twitter handle, where he has 47.6 million followers.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Medical Dialogues / Feb 21, 2021

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation EE Times India / Feb 21, 2021

Article By : India Science Wire Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the development, conduct and promotion of health research in India. Gates Foundation and CSIR will work together to identify opportunities to initiate scientific and technological collaborations.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Wall Street Journal / Feb 21, 2021

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia-A cavernous new airport cargo terminal in Ethiopia's capital is the center of a vast supply network China is assembling to speed delivery of its coronavirus vaccines -and deepen its influence across the developing world. At one end is a soccer-field-sized freezer to store vials from Chinese state-controlled drug companies.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Chattanooga Times Free Press / Feb 21, 2021

Does he know what he says? Biden administration officials must have been chewing their nails when 78-year-old President Joe Biden went onstage last week to participate in a live town hall hosted by CNN. And before the night was over, they were, in fact, telling folks what the president meant to say.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Yahoo Finance / Feb 21, 2021

Ecuador's national electoralcouncil (CNE) said on Sunday that pro-market conservative bankerGuillermo Lasso obtained 19.74% of the vote in presidentialelections on Feb. 7 and will advance to a runoff against leftisteconomist Andres Arauz on April 11. Arauz, an ally of former President Rafael Correa, won themost votes in the first round with 32.72%, shy of the marginrequired to win outright.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Yahoo Finance / Feb 21, 2021

Saudi Arabian Military Industries(SAMI) has signed an agreement to set up a joint venture withU.S. firm Lockheed Martin to enhance the kingdom'sdefence and manufacturing capabilities, the state-owned Saudicompany said on Sunday. SAMI, which is owned by the Saudi state's Public InvestmentFund (PIF), will own 51% of the venture.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ThePrint / Feb 21, 2021

Tesla's Elon Musk and Amazon's Jeff Bezos have been vying for the world's richest person ranking all year after the former's wealth soared a staggering US$160 billion in 2020, putting him briefly in the top spot. Musk isn't alone in seeing a significant increase in wealth during a year of pandemic, recession and death.