The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (RPE), Prof. Lucy Irungu hosted the Grand Challenges Explorations Workshop. The Grand Challenges Explorations is a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiative which seeks bold ideas from innovative thinkers to solve global health problems.

The workshop which was held at the Confucius Centre, College of Humanities and Social Sciences on 13^th September 2011 attracted researchers from University of Nairobi, JKUAT, Kenyatta University and other regional Research Institutions.

In her opening remarks, Prof. Irungu said that the mainstay of the University of Nairobi research and innovation strategy for developing and commercialising our research findings is to align our courses and research with partners who bring complementary resources and capabilities to our team.

She thanked the organising committee and the  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation management for choosing University of Nairobi to host the Grand Challenges Explorations workshop.

Grand Challenges Workshop in progress

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations is a streamlined research funding program with two application rounds each year. The program is open to innovators from any discipline, at any level of research experience and from any organization. For more information about Grand Challenges Explorations, please visit www.grandchallenges.org/explorations

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations staff also made a courtesy call to the Vice Chancellor.

Grand Challenge pays courtesy call on VC

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