Keystone Symposia announces new three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Includes efforts to bring in new ideas, expertise from developing-country scientists

		IMAGE: Keystone Symposia's has just received a second multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund meetings in its Global Health Series. The last meeting funded by the... Click here for more information.

SILVERTHORNE, CO – November 6, 2009 – Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that it has received a second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund conferences on infectious disease in its "Keystone Symposia Global Health Series." In 2006, the Colorado, USA-based nonprofit organization received its first three-year grant; the funding for that ended with the October 20-25, 2009 conference on "Overcoming the Crisis of TB and AIDS" in Arusha, Tanzania. The new grant provides $2.7 million over three years – or approximately $900,000 per year.