The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched its most ambitious bid ever to rev up AIDS vaccine research with grants totaling $287 million for researchers who have novel ideas and are willing to pool their findings.
Creating an effective HIV vaccine has proven especially tough because the AIDS virus, HIV, attacks and nests in the cells that defend the body against diseases.
Like other Gates initiatives, the program aims to make new gains by revamping the way scientists work. Eleven of the 16 grants will set up networks of "some of the best minds from around the world" to tackle problems that have stymied vaccine researchers for two decades, says Nicholas Hellmann, the foundation's interim director of HIV programs.
[Excerpt of an article by Steve Sternberg, USA Today]
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