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Unlike most lengthy grant applications, applicants submitted just a two-page proposal and needed no preliminary data—the focus was on the idea, not on the results, according to Andrew C. Serazin, an official at the Gates Foundation.
The Crimson contacted three of the four scientists who won grants from the Gates Foundation (the work of the fourth, Harvard Medical School professor George M. Church, has been profiled in the past) to learn about their “unconventional” research.
For the Gates Foundation grant, Fortune will study a particular state known as latency, where patients can be infected as children but not develop symptoms for decades.
Across the street from Fortune, another Gates recipient—Hasan, a professor of dermatology—is working on an innovative way to kill infections using photodynamic therapy.
Kishony, a systems biologist and the third Gates grant recipient, is researching how using multiple drugs that suppress each other can surprisingly lead to more effective treatment.