The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation based in Seattle, Washington.
On January 12, 2016, Moderna announced that it had entered a funding agreement with the Gates Foundation to develop therapeutics against HIV and other diseases. The agreement included an initial $20 million grant, with the potential to increase the amount to $100 million.[1][2]
In November 2016, AbCellera received a $645,000 USD grant from the Gates Foundation to develop a test for tuberculosis.[3]
On September 4, 2019, BioNTech announced it had received a $55 million grant from the Gates Foundation to expand its HIV and tuberculosis portfolios.[4]
The Gates Foundation co-hosted a pandemic preparedness exercise called Event 201 in New York City on October 18, 2019, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum.[5]
On March 10, 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mastercard and Wellcome Trust announced a commitment of up to $125 million towards the creation of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator.[6][7]
In June 2020, the foundation contributed $750 million to the development of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.[8]
In November 2021, the Gates Foundation gave $2,118,334 to Providence Therapeutics to develop more cost-effective mRNA vaccines.[9]
AbCellera received a second grant from the Gates Foundation in January 2022 to “identify potent anti-RSV monoclonal antibodies to protect infants in low and middle income countries from RSV infection morbidity and mortality.”[10]
The Gates Foundation has been a client of Message Global.[11]
The Gates Foundation makes direct investments in for-profit ventures through its Strategic Investment Fund (SIF).
The Gates Foundation has provided funding to:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — Advancing an mRNA-based antibody combination to help prevent HIV infection. Moderna. Retrieved March 21, 2022, from http://archive.today/2021.08.23-023928/https://www.modernatx.com/ecosystem/strategic-collaborators/foundations-advancing-mrna-science-and-research ↩︎ ↩︎
Moderna Wins Initial $20M Grant from Gates Foundation. (2016, January 12). GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. http://archive.today/2023.02.03-040340/https://www.genengnews.com/topics/omics/moderna-wins-initial-20m-grant-from-gates-foundation/ ↩︎ ↩︎
AbCellera Biologics Inc. (2016, November). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.05.04-180458/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2016/11/opp1163209 ↩︎ ↩︎
Boehler, M. (2019, September 4). BioNTech announces new collaboration to develop HIV and tuberculosis programs. BioNTech. http://archive.today/2022.01.03-191438/https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-announces-new-collaboration-develop-hiv-and ↩︎ ↩︎
Event 201, a pandemic exercise to illustrate preparedness efforts. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved January 3, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.01.03-222033/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ ↩︎
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator. (2020, March 10). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2021.04.25-054406/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Ideas/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2020/03/COVID-19-Therapeutics-Accelerator ↩︎
Suzman, M. (2020, March 10). Announcing the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.01.18-165008/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/coronavirus-mark-suzman-therapeutics ↩︎
Canellis, D. (2020, June 5). Bill Gates commits $750M to help Oxford vaccinate the world against COVID-19. TNW | Fintech-Ecommerce. http://archive.today/2023.02.25-123239/https://thenextweb.com/news/bill-gates-covid-coronavirus-vaccine-750-million-oxford-azd1222 ↩︎
Providence Therapeutics. (2021, November). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.06.14-010933/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2021/11/inv036094 ↩︎ ↩︎
AbCellera Biologics Inc. (2022, January). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.05.04-180519/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2022/01/inv027467 ↩︎ ↩︎
What. Message Global. Retrieved November 5, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20161105104753/http://message-global.com/what ↩︎
Wellcome, Gates pledge $300 million to prevent future epidemics. (2022, January 20). Philanthropy News Digest. https://web.archive.org/web/20220120223745/https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/wellcome-gates-pledge-300-million-to-prevent-future-epidemics ↩︎
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V. Vipul Naik. Retrieved March 29, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.03.29-052407/https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donorDonee.php?donor=Bill+and+Melinda+Gates+Foundation&donee=Janssen+Vaccines+%26+Prevention+B.V. ↩︎
Third Way Institute. (2019, November). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2024.03.27-175106/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2019/11/inv001704 ↩︎