Topic: Malaria

The Institute for OneWorld Health: Not-for-profit Drugmaking

Founder and Board Chair: Victoria HaleREAD»

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Bill Gates Sends Mosquitoes Into Crowd

Whether or not you think Bill Gates is a sadist probably has a lot to do with whether or not you're a Vista user, but we can all agree that freeing a swarm of mosquitoes into an auditorium is downright cruel. Yet that's just what ...READ»

GlaxoSmithKline Fights Malaria in Africa with Satellites

Malaria kills one million people a year, most of them children in Africa's so-called Malaria Belt (the sub-Saharan region). In partnership with the Gates Foundation, pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline is preparing an ambitious ...READ»

The Institute for OneWorld Health: Not-for-profit Drugmaking

Founder and Board Chair: Victoria HaleREAD»

Children for Children: On Saving Lives and Leadership Development

I am usually writing about leadership development for corporate executives - high impact service opportunities to involve business people and philanthropists in global issues. Today, I am thrilled to write about a national program ...READ»

Miracle Microbes

Innovation: Synthetic malaria cure Available: 2009 In the labs of Amyris Biotechnologies, scientists are transferring genes from microbe to microbe. This molecular manipulation is the basis of synthetic biology, which ...READ»

Five Creative Ways to Improve Health Care in the Developing World

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced that it has bestowed 76 grants of $100,000 each to scientists who have come up with unconventional ways to destroy infectious diseases in the developing world. Below are ...READ»

Gates Foundation Grants $100K Apiece To 81 Wild Ideas

Last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation inaugurated its Grand Challenges Exploration--a five-year, $100 million program to encourage path-breaking research that's ordinarily too visionary to attract ...READ»

60 Seconds With Jeffrey Sachs

You don't need a PhD to redress humanity's saddest oversights.READ»

Social Responsibility: Activist Facebooking and Virtual Gifting

In my latest post on education, I discussed research at the Parsons School of Design on educational games that address social issues. Harnessing technology to promote social awareness is certainly not a new phenomenon. In fact, ...READ»

A Nonprofit Pharmaceutical Company?

Yes. The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco claims to the the first one in the U.S. Just today it received a $42.6 million five-year grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to try to cure malaria.READ»

Pew Pew! Gates-Funded Weapon of Mosquito Destruction Combats Malaria

It seemed inevitable that Bill Gates would one day build a killer laser. But who would have guessed that it would be for killing mosquitoes? The Weapon of Mosquito Destruction (WMD), developed by astrophysicists and former ...READ»

Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher Plans to Be the Next New-Media Mogul

How Ashton Kutcher is pioneering a new kind of media business, bridging Hollywood, technology, and Madison Avenue. Really.READ»

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Filling the Void

Introducing the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award winners--25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can't stand a vacuum.READ»

I'm a PC...and I Fund Crazy Ideas that Might Save Millions of Lives

Now there's a line that would fit nicely in Microsoft's unusually moving new ad campaign. This week the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it had spent $10 million on 104 global-health research projects considered too ...READ»

• Richard Klausner Spends to Save Lives
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Richard Klausner Spends to Save Lives

At the wealthiest foundation on the planet, a brilliant scientist is giving away Bill Gates's money in pursuit of a lofty goal: solving the world's most pressing health problems.READ»

Rwanda Rising: A New Model of Economic Development

Fifteen years after the genocide, the small African country has embraced a new model of economic development. Its strategy: Build a global network of powerful friends to lure private investment -- and market the brand of Rwanda.READ»

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Genzyme at CGI: Global Problem-Solving Gives You a Competitive Advantage

If your corporate social responsibility (CSR) program is ancillary to your corporate strategy, it's on the chopping block--or already in the waste bin. This is especially true in today's economy. On the flip side, you have a chance to ...READ»