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SOFTWARE billionaire Bill Gates today gave a £28.5m grant to Liverpool's School of Tropical Medicine.


The Microsoft founder awarded the cash to the internationally-renowned school from the charitable foundation he set up with wife Melinda.


The grant will put it at the forefront of the world's fight to defeat malaria, and comes days after the Pembroke Place-based school was awarded £18m to create a new international institute to fight tropical diseases.


The Gates grant will be used to develop new research into malaria, which kills 2,000 African children every day.

Director of the School Prof Janet Hemingway said: "This award is wonderful news for the school and the city, and most of all the thousands of people in countries where the school is at the forefront of the fight against malaria."


An £18m grant to develop a new Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases was awarded by the Merseyside Objective 1 programme and Northwest Regional Development Agency.


This and the Gates award will see the school become one of the world's leading institutions dedicated to developing treatments for infectious and tropical diseases.


The new centre, to be built next to the existing building, and the new research announced today will see the school double in size.


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Cool, can give more research help for people who go to places and catch those kind of diseases.

Isn't it about time we gave Bill Gates 'Honorary Scouser' status? :PDT10

Gates gives second disease grant to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/merseyside/6501139.stm) - British scientists are given $23m (£11.5m) by Bill Gates to help fight some of the world's most debilitating diseases.

Very honourable gesture from the Multi Billionaire.

He could've rounded it up!!

Send the Man and his wife a BIG THANKYOU from Liverpool. I just have.

e-mail addy >>>>>

info@gatesfoundation.org

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Dec 28 2007 (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/12/28/) by Helen Hunt, Liverpool Echo

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SCIENTISTS at Liverpool’s School of Tropical Medicine are preparing for a New Year handover of their new multi-million pound tropical and infectious diseases centre.

The £23m glass building will help keep them at the forefront of drug and vaccine research, and has been designed to make much use of natural light.

It is next to the school’s historic building in Pembroke Place and has facilities which the institution’s early scientists could only dream of.

Malaria kills more than one million people every year, and grants for malaria and other insect-borne disease research in the new building include £25m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and £10m from the European Union.

It now has over £100m of research contracts. Among those awarded this year are a £12m programme to find new drug combinations for river blindness and the disfiguring disease elephantiasis, and a £2m project to tackle the tsetse fly, carrier of human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness.

Director Professor Janet Hemingway said: “2008 promises to be one of Liverpool’s most exciting years yet.”

Liverpool's school for tropical medicine is known to be the best in the world. I have only been to the old building. When I was going abroad to live for a while, my doctor sent me there. I had injections for typhus, yellow water fever, malaria and goodness knows what else.
As it states, it is a school, a teaching hospital where students from all over the world will be trained. It's labs will have mind blowing facilities and will be second to none. I am told that there will be a close relationship between the school/hospital for tropical medicine and that for vetinary medicine. Makes sense to me.

The school of Tropical Medicine was responsible for the Panama Canal being built.

The workforce kept dying of Yellow fever by the thousands to the point work stopped. The school was the first to link the disease with the mosquito and stagnant water was drained reducing the mosquitos and the dissease. They also developed vaccines for various mosquito carried diseases.

It was also The World's First (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=231)

MICROSOFT billionaire Bill Gates has pledged a further $30m (£15m) grant to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for pioneering malaria research. Read (http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/03/07/tycoon-pledges-a-further-15m-for-liverpool-scientists-leading-fight-against-malaria-64375-20571832/)