Reuters: Gates Foundation backs Takeda polio vaccine with $38 million grant
“Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceuticals is to get $38 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a crucial, low-cost polio vaccine for use in developing countries. … Chris Elias, the Gates Foundation’s head of global development, said the partnership would help ‘ensure that the world has enough vaccine to get the job done and maintain a polio-free world’…” (Kelland, 5/8).