Gates Foundation Putting A Quarter Of A Billion Dollars Toward Finding HIV Vaccine…

NY Times LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN July 19, 2006 at 07:43 PM

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded more than a quarter of a billion dollars today to researchers in 19 countries to speed the lagging development of an H.I.V. vaccine.

The grants are the largest private investment in making such a vaccine, the foundation said. They represent a significant shift in emphasis, to large-scale collaborative projects instead of small teams of researchers working independently.

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