Biotech Updates

Request for Proposals: Grand Challenges in Global Health

October 17, 2008

The McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health (MRC) and its Ethical, Social and Cultural Program (ESC) for the Grand Challenges in Global Health (GCGH) Initiative invite individuals, institutions, organizations and companies from the developing world to submit proposals to carry out projects that will facilitate the implementation and use of technologies in the developing world that arise from the GCGH projects. The goal of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to select and commission research on strategies that will facilitate the implementation and appropriate use in the developing world of technologies that arise from the GCGH projects related to diagnostics, modified insect vectors, nutritionally enhanced foods, and vaccine delivery. The MRC wish to make this information as wide as possible to reach all those who may be interested to apply.

Check out this link for more details http://cts.vresp.com/c/?MRCPLEP/aa3b92ea4d/41e408c2e5/7ee326fc32 and visit http://www.mrcglobal.org/rfp for further information. The deadline to submit proposals is January 16, 2009..