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 Grand Challenges Explorations Grants

Grand Challenges Explorations fosters creative projects that show great promise to improve the health of people in the developing world. Initial grants are awarded two times a year, and successful projects have the opportunity to receive additional funding of $1 million or more.

On October 21, 2009, the Gates Foundation announced that 76 new global health projects received Grand Challenges Explorations grants. Learn more about these new Round 3 grants below. To review all 262 Explorations projects, select "Show All Rounds" in the Round drop-down menu.

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Targeted Oral Vaccines to Induce Cellular & Mucosal Immunity
Primary Investigator:
Jennifer Maynard, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States - US
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Round:
Round 3 – October 2009
Jennifer Maynard and Nicholas Peppas of the University of Texas at Austin in the U.S. seeks to engineer proteins to be delivered by oral polymeric vaccine that specifically bind to receptors of M cells on the gut mucosa. By targeting these M cells, antigens can be introduced directly to the mucosal system, inducing a targeted, stronger immune response.

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