Call for Ideas in Global Health
Asclepias
funds for Scientists | Researchers | Techno Geeks to help solve some
of the worlds global health problems.
This is one competition that every person with a good idea should
become involved with.
A sample submission can be found @
http://www.terapeta.net/internet-service/district-of-columbia/news.html
or by going directly to http://www.grandchallengesgh.org/
The scientific board presently consist of:
Harold Varmus, Chair of Board and Executive Committee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
United States of America
Rick Klausner, member, Executive Committee
Executive Director
Global Health Program
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
United States of America
Elias Zerhouni, member, Executive Committee
Director
National Institutes of Health
United States of America
Roy Anderson
Head, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Imperial College of the University of London
England
Mary Jane Cardosa
Professor of Virology
Institute of Health and Community Medicine
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Malaysia
Christine Debouck
GlaxoSmithKline
United States of America
Anthony Fauci
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
United States of America
William Foege
Senior Fellow
Global Health Program
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
United States of America
Julio Frenk
Minister of Health
Mexico
Nirmal Ganguly
Director General
Indian Council for Medical Research
India
Julie Gerberding
Director
Centers for Disease Control
United States of America
Fotis Kafatos
Director General
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Germany
Gerald Keusch
Director
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
United States of America
Francis Nkrumah
Former Director
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
University of Ghana
Ghana
Gustav Nossal
Department of Pathology
University of Melbourne
Australia
Odile Puijalon
Institut Pasteur
France
Yiming Shao
Chief Scientist
National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention
Director, Division of Research on Virology and Immunology
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
China
Peter A. Singer
Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director,
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
Professor of Medicine
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Distinguished Investigator
Director, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics
Program Leader, Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health
Canada
Florence Wambugu
President
A Harvest Biotech Foundation Int'l (AHBFI)
Kenya
Yongyuth Yuthavong
President
Thai Academy of Science and Technology
Senior Researcher, National Centre for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology
Thailand Science Park
National Science and Technology Development Agency
Thailand
Elke Jordan, executive secretary
Grand Challenges Manager
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
United States of America
Good Luck : - )
Hans Schnauber, Physionom Researcher