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Trevor Mundel

Joining Forces Against Sickle Cell Disease and HIV Infection

Posted on October 28th, 2019 by Dr. Francis Collins

Gates Collaboration Telebriefing — The NIH and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, will invest at least $200 million over the next four years to develop affordable gene-based cures globally for sickle cell disease and HIV infection. The announcement of this timely collaboration was made during a late-morning telebriefing at NIH on October 23, 2019. Here, I met with two of my fellow participants on the call: Gary Gibbons (left), director of NIH’s Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and Trevor Mundel, (middle), president of the Gates Foundation’s global health efforts. Also joining the telebriefing remotely by phone were Tony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Matishidiso Moeti, director of the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa. Credit: NIH

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Tags: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gary Gibbons, Matishidiso Rebecca Moeti, NHLBI, NIAID, sickle cell disease, Tony Fauci, Trevor Mundel, World Health Organization

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