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Gates Foundation commits $82.9 million to develop new tuberculosis vaccines

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 3rd, 2004

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced an $82.9 million grant to the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation to support development of new vaccines to prevent tuberculosis (TB), a disease that kills nearly 2 million people every year.

The grant, the largest ever for TB vaccine development, will allow Aeras to fund human trials of promising TB vaccines and early research on the next generation of vaccines.

Dr. Richard Klausner, executive director of the Gates Foundation's Global Health program, announced the grant at the opening session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Seattle. The grant will more than...

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