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Grand Challenges Explorations Grant

Researchers will receive $100,000 (£62,800) from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to look into ways of vaccinating people against diarrhoea.

Garry Blakely, senior lecturer in molecular microbiology at the University of Edinburgh, has been funded by the Microsoft billionaire's foundation to carry out a year-long investigation into the use of bacterial nanoparticles as a potential oral vaccine against the disease. The foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations initiative funds projects that "explore ideas that can break the mold" in tackling global development and health problems.

This article was published on Dec 13, 2011


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