CU-Boulder startup company receives Gates Foundation exploration grant2012
A new startup company that sprang from the University of Colorado Boulder this year is a Grand Challenges Exploration winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Psychology and neurosciences department Associate Professor Don Cooper, co-founder and chief science officer of Mobile Assay Inc. of Boulder who developed the technology in his laboratory at CU’s Institute for Behavioral Genetics, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project titled “A Lab on Mobile Device Platform for Seed Testing.”
Grand Challenges Explorations, or GCE, funds individuals worldwide who are taking innovative approaches to some of the world’s toughest and most persistent global health and development challenges. GCE invests in the early stages of bold ideas that have real potential to solve problems people in the developing world face every day. Cooper and Mobile Assay Inc. are one of more than 80 Grand Challenges Exploration Round 9 grants for $100,000 each announced today by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2012/11/01/cu-boulder-startup-company-receives-gates-foundation-exploration-grant
Gates foundation has many ties to Colorado even as early as year 2000. On foundation page searched Colorado vaccines and got a 3 page list.
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/search#q/k=Colorado%20vaccines&page=2