Winnipeg Free Press: U of M awarded most Gates foundation grants of any Canadian university
The University of Manitoba has been the beneficiary of almost half-a-billion dollars in grants — the most of any post-secondary institution in the country — from the foundation headed by software billionaire Bill Gates and his ex-wife.
On Tuesday, the university announced the latest US$12.5-million grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had brought in more than $450 million in research dollars since the foundation’s first grant to it 22 years ago.
“We’ve had a lot of different projects with the Gates Foundation,” said Dr. James Blanchard, director of the Institute for Global Public Health and the Canada Research Chair in epidemiology and global health.
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Research at the University of Manitoba is partially supported by funding from the Government of Canada Research Support Fund.