Seattle Police and Fire Department personnel responded to a report Tuesday afternoon of a suspicious package containing a white powdery substance at a mail facility for the Bill & Melinda… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide $75 million over the next four years to increase enrollment in post-secondary education programs in Washington state. The endeavor is the new… 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
A new initiative to discover and develop antiviral medications for future pandemics was announced Tuesday by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation and Open Philanthropy. The… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named the first members of its new board of trustees, appointing three outsiders to join its namesake co-chairs in overseeing one of the world’s… Read More
Melinda French Gates on Tuesday morning reaffirmed her commitment to the Giving Pledge, in which the world’s wealthiest people commit to give away (or “give back,” in the words of… Read More
As people in the United States debate COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a new report from the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a reminder that many people around the world… Read More
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, University of Washington scientist Deborah Fuller did a quick pivot to the new virus. Her skills in vaccine research had been honed for many years… Read More
Researchers at the University of Washington will test a once-a-month pill to prevent HIV in women with a new $122 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The… Read More
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett said he will resign as a trustee at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “For years I have been a trustee — an inactive trustee… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed with two Chicago financial groups to channel $5.5 million into efforts by Seattle-based nonprofit PATH to bring more oxygen to COVID-19 patients… Read More
Bill and Melinda Gates express ongoing concern about the current pandemic in their annual letter, while also looking ahead to preventing the next one. “To prevent the hardship of this… Read More
In a time of global pandemic, economic crisis and rising unemployment, the Gates Foundation’s most surprising philanthropic target is a group often overlooked by donors: billionaires themselves. In October 2020,… Read More
Well, here we are: rattled, unsettled and full of anxiety. Less than 24 hours before a historic U.S. election, we are perched on the edge of a precarious precipice. And… 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
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
Seattle-based biotech research startup A-Alpha Bio announced on Thursday that it has received an $800,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The money will support drug research for… 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
The head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says he’s hopeful that a COVID-19 vaccine will be available by the end of this year — if all goes well.… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. COVID-19 has upended the tech startup hiring market: There used to be more jobs than talent, but the situation… Read More
Melinda Gates called out a lack of national leadership in the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic in an interview that aired on NBC News’ Today Show this morning, offering… 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
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed an additional $50 million in funding for the GAVI vaccine alliance to address issues related to COVID-19, focusing on efforts to distribute future… 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
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
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is designating an additional $150 million to the global fight against COVID-19, bringing its total funding to more than $250 million, and promising to… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $3.7 million to a Seattle-area public health agency; several local foundations; homeless service providers; and more in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, a leading philanthropist on global public health, offered predictions and advice for coping with the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday during a Reddit AMA. He urged everyone who… 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
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Wellcome and Mastercard to form the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a $125 million effort to help find potential treatments for the… Read More