Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

the bill & melinda gates medical research institute is a non-profit biotech organization dedicated to accelerating the product development timeline for diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest populations, starting with malaria, tuberculosis, and diarrheal diseases—diseases that combined cause five deaths every minute.* headquartered in boston, mass. and led by ceo dr. penny heaton, our focus is translational medicine, advancing novel drug and vaccine candidates against the aforementioned diseases from the laboratory into human studies. at the gates mri, we work across multiple interventions and disease areas to increase the identification, selection, and optimization of novel drug and vaccine candidates, with the intention to transition viable candidates to late-stage development partners across the global health ecosystem. we will seek to publish our learnings, so that they will be available to all research and development communities through our commitment to open