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The Gates Foundation: Dissatisfied With Results?

Posted on July 01, 2008

Well, since last week around here we were talking about how (and how not to) fund research, I should mention that Bill Gates is currently having some of the same discussions. He s doing it with real money, though, and plenty of it.The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation definitely has that the question has been how best to spend it. They started out by handing out money to the top academic research organizations in the field, just to prime the pump. Then a few years ago, the focus turned to a set of Grand Challenges , fourteen of the biggest public health problems, and the foundation ...

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