Revisiting a news article from November 5, 2008, having sudden interest in the Gates Grand Challenges grants.
Gates Foundation gives three Grand Challenges Explorations grants to Stanford
Three medical school researchers—Mark Davis, Andrew Fire and Christina Smolke—were among the first-round recipients of grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's new Grand Challenges Explorations initiative.
The awards, which were announced Oct. 22, 2008 were $100,000 each and were intended to promote the exploration of bold and largely unproven ways to improve global health.
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Where are they now, five years later? This experimental view above shows the three researchers mentioned in the article. The article itself is the purple dot in the middle, and the three researchers with their labs and projects are are the three clusters. It is easy to see the collaborations in Bioengineering and BioX, but our map doesn't show collaborative connections to Nobel Prize winner Dr Fire's lab ... yet.
View the widget at Visible Legacy...
Where are they now, five years later? This experimental view above shows the three researchers mentioned in the article. The article itself is the purple dot in the middle, and the three researchers with their labs and projects are are the three clusters. It is easy to see the collaborations in Bioengineering and BioX, but our map doesn't show collaborative connections to Nobel Prize winner Dr Fire's lab ... yet.
