Melinda French Gates is signing off after nearly 25 years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, telling colleagues and alumni of the Seattle-based philanthropic organization in a letter Friday… Read More
Melinda French Gates is walking away from a 2,000-employee philanthropy with assets totaling more than $75 billion. But some say her departure from the Gates Foundation, announced Monday, could unlock… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named 48 grant recipients in its AI Grand Challenge, seeking to encourage new applications of artificial intelligence by researchers in low- and middle-income countries.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Sunday announced a $1.2 billion commitment to aid an effort to eliminate polio worldwide. The disease is endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan and… Read More
Melinda French Gates this week offered a different timetable for the future of the Gates Foundation than the one laid out last month by her ex-husband Bill Gates. During Fortune’s… Read More
In a recent interview at the 2022 Forbes 400 Philanthropy Summit, Bill Gates shared that the plan is to wind down the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 25 years.… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will increase its annual payout in grants and other financial assistance by 50% to $9 billion by 2026, responding to what it… Read More
Bill Gates helped cut the ribbon Monday afternoon at a new Seattle-area manufacturing facility for vaccines built by Inventprise, a biotech company supported with funds from the Bill & Melinda… Read More
In the first interview addressing her divorce, Melinda French Gates shared details of the unraveling of her 27-year marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. “It wasn’t one moment or one… Read More
Ten months after announcing her divorce, Melinda French Gates is publicly sharing details of her split with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and where she’s headed now. The couple was married… Read More
Walter Isaacson has studied and written extensively about the physics and technology revolutions as the biographer of such figures as Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs. But after writing his latest… Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic is a “gigantic setback” for the world. But Bill Gates is still optimistic about the future. As we wrapped up our interview with Gates at the virtual… Read More
The good news is that Operation Warp Speed, the multibillion-dollar effort to develop vaccines for COVID-19, is moving ahead at a pace that justifies its name. The bad news is… Read More
Bill Gates Sr., a respected lawyer, devoted civic leader, trusted mentor, and influential philanthropist who helped to shape Seattle’s tech industry even before his son co-founded Microsoft, died Monday of… Read More
A team including researchers from Seattle’s Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason has identified a new pathway for protecting cells from deadly viruses — including the coronavirus that causes COVID-19… Read More
Tech leaders typically use their TED talks to sketch out an optimistic vision of the future, but today Bill Gates used his to warn about a rough autumn ahead due… Read More
— Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced that Anu Sharma is joining its investment team as a principal. Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is pledging an additional $1.6 billion to the Gavi vaccine alliance for the next five years, plus an additional $100 million specifically for COVID-19… Read More
The CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is disappointed that the United States isn’t on the same page with other nations when it comes to fighting the coronavirus… Read More
Mark Suzman, the new CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a key figure in the fight against COVID-19, will join GeekWire for a conversation about global health,… Read More
Bill Gates has been big on vaccines since before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but in a new blog posting, the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist says the only… Read More
Updated below with details from news conference. Early results from a first-of-its-kind at-home testing program for COVID-19, analyzing more than 4,000 nasal samples sent in from across the Seattle region,… Read More
Seattle’s Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is in the public health spotlight, thanks to its efforts to head off just the sort of global pandemic we’re now experiencing — but… Read More
Amazon Care is offering assistance to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a plan to deliver coronavirus test kits to Seattle homes, CNBC reports. The plan as described hints… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 years, and today he told the nation’s premier scientific gathering… Read More
A three-year-long clinical trial of an HIV vaccine in South Africa, funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and managed by a consortium headquartered at Seattle’s Fred… Read More
Washington state’s global health organizations employ more than 14,000 people and contributed about $8.8 billion to the state’s economy in 2017, according to estimates from a report released this week… Read More
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind clinical trial Tuesday that will test a new HIV vaccine candidate. The candidate, called eOD-GT8 60mer, uses what scientists call… Read More
A King County judge sided with a former executive at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who claimed he was misled about the scope of his job during his recruitment and… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has forged a partnership with Oxitec, a British mosquito control company, to develop mosquitoes that are genetically engineered to suppress malaria. Oxitec’s latest project… Read More
