The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said today that it is pledging $10 billion to foster more work on research, development, and delivery of vaccines over the coming decade. The goal is to save the lives of more than 8 million children by 2020. Bill and Melinda Gates made the announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We must make this the decade of vaccines,” said Bill Gates, in a statement. “Vaccines already save and improve millions of lives in developing countries. Innovation will make it possible to save more children than ever before.”
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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