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Press Releases
1st September, 2010
MEND selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum
MEND has been selected by the World Economic Forum as one of the 31 Technology Pioneers for 2011. The forum awareded visionary technology early stage company from around the world who are poised to have highly postive impact on the futur of health, business, industry and society. Read more. or View Video
5 February, 2010
Medicine in Need receives $3 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to apply adavanced formulation technologies to the stabilization of a new malaria vaccine candidates.
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6 November, 2007
Medicine in Need receives $8.3 million grant from Gates Foundation to apply advanced biomaterial science to three major vaccine and drug challenges in global health today.
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Events
10, 11 and 12, March, 2009
2nd consortium meeting
MEND Innovation & Translation Alliance organizes at Le Laboratoire in Paris a conference where pharmaceutical scientists, engineers, and others, from industry and academia, meet to generate innovation on the development and implementation of advanced delivery technology.
20 – 22 October, 2008
Grand Challenges in Global health in Bangkok
In 2003 at the world economic forum, Bill Gates announced the Grand Challenges in Golbal Health awarding $200-milion medical research initiative. Few years later 14 challenges were identified and several projects awarded: MEND’s research on Needle Free Vaccination Via Nanoparticle Aerosols is one of them. MEND is part of the Bangkok meeting and the James Nachtwey exhibit on Tuberculosis it supported will be presented. Read more.