Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Medicine
Date: May 2009
Purpose: to create a next generation malaria vaccine by deleting a gene responsible for parasite development in the liver and adding a new gene which attracts dendritic cells to the infection site.
Amount: $100,000
Term: 18
Topic: Discovery and Translational Sciences
Program: Global Health
Grantee Location: Haikou, Hainan
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database/Grants/2009/05/OPP53115
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, on Sunday attended a south China campus event promoting the prevention of AIDS and tuberculosis, alongside Zambia's First Lady Esther Lungu and U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.
Before the event, held in Hainan University in Haikou City, Hainan Province, Peng met with Bill Gates and highly praised the health promotion efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in China as well as around the globe. She encouraged further cooperation between the foundation and China in this regard.
Peng is an goodwill ambassador of the World Health Organization for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
http://www.bjreview.com/se/txt/2015-03/30/content_680348.htm
March 30, 2015
Nice!!!!