Gates Foundation

Aerial view of the Donald Danforth Plan Science Center

Giles Oldroyd will be the Danforth Plant Science Center鈥檚 next president

Eric Schmid

He joins the center as an internationally distinguished plant geneticist and a member of the U.K.鈥檚 Royal Society and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Healthworkers test a village chief for lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, in the Ivory Coast.

Health, Science & Environment

Wash U Researchers Awarded $24 Million In Effort To Eradicate Tropical Diseases

Shahla Farzan

Elephantiasis and river blindness are parasitic diseases straight out of a horror movie.In both cases, insects bite humans and transmit tiny parasitic鈥�

Government, Politics & Issues

Gates Foundation boosts efforts here to provide life-saving crops for Africa

David Baugher

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 15, 2011 - When Martin Fregene talks to farmers in his native Nigeria, he always tells them鈥�

A cassava root. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has received $8.3 million fron the Gates Foundation to research ways to increase nutrition in the root, which is the main carbohydrate for a quarter of a billion people.

Health, Science & Environment

Danforth Center gets grant for African nutrition

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Creve Coeur $8.3 million to increase the nutritional value of鈥�

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