Stanford launches major effort to expedite vaccine discovery with $50 million grant

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http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/january/gift-davis-gates-012915.html

Stanford University today announced that it has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate efforts in vaccine development. The $50 million grant over 10 years will build on existing technology developed at Stanford and housed in the Human Immune Monitoring Core, and will establish the Stanford Human Systems Immunology Center. The center aims to better understand how the immune system can be harnessed to develop vaccines for the world’s most deadly infectious diseases.

The Gates kid enrollment does seem to help in a big way…

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@texaspg. Chuck Feeney is another proud parent of a Stanford graduate who has quietly moved Stanford into this new century with his dedication and philanthropy…
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/january/chuck-feeney-profile-011515.html