Smartphone app reads blood oxygen levels to hospital standards
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 9-Mar-2014 Scale-up of LGTmedical’s Phone Oximeter™ capitalized with $2 million Canadian private-public investment; device could save […]
Global health innovation
Mobile phones, apps toss lifeline to sufferers of brain & mental disorders in remote world corners
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto January 10, 2014 In Bhutan: Clinical tests of new app for diagnosing seizure disorders; $300 device
Diagnostic diapers to detect deadly rotavirus among 83 global health innovations to receive Grand Challenges Canada funding
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 21 Nov 2013 Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, today extends seed grants
‘Saving Brains’ of kids in developing countries: Grand Challenges Canada funds 14 bold new ideas
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 23 October 2013 4 projects nominated for grants up to $2 million; 10 projects awarded $270,000
Major awards announced for innovative solutions to prevent infant/maternal deaths
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto Saving Lives at Birth 31 July 2013 Some 22 projects from nine countries: Australia, Canada, Guatemala,
Inventive: 102 bold new global health ideas win Grand Challenges Canada funding
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 29 April, 2013 59 creative, out-of-box health innovations devised in 13 low- and middle-income countries, plus
Inspired: Canada funds 68 bold, inventive ways to improve health, save lives in developing countries
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 22 Nov. 2012 Grand Challenges Canada awards 68 $100,000 seed grants to innovators worldwide Some 51 innovators
Abdallah Daar, Biotechnology, Global Health, Global health innovation, Grand Challenges Canada, Health in Developing Countries, McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health, Peter A. Singer
Historic ‘Grand Challenge’ launched: Create low-cost devices for rapid disease diagnosis
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 16-Dec-2011 Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invest almost $32 million in
Creating an ‘electronic nose’ to sniff out tuberculosis from a patient’s breath
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 7-Nov-2011 A new hand-held device called the Electronic Nose, which has the potential to diagnose tuberculosis
Smelly socks could be a key to preventing malaria deaths in the developing world
Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 13 Jul 11 Tanzanian researchers are awarded a two-year grant to further develop a device that uses human foot