The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it will add four members to its board of trustees, a first for the Seattle-based philanthropic giant whose decision making has been guided by very few hands since its incorporation in 2000.
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Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates regrets his gatherings with Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financial manager who was accused of child sex trafficking, he told CNN Wednesday.
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Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates are giving themselves a two-year trial period to continue co-chairing their massive charitable foundation.
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Warren Buffett has resigned from his trustee position at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the 90-year-old investor announced Wednesday. He also pledges to give away $4.1 billion of his fortune.
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Duke University has received a $4.5 million grant to support the management of field-testing transformative sanitation technologies to improve public health. Here are the details.
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The race for a successful coronavirus vaccine is heating up in labs around the world — and on Wall Street. Germany’s CureVac, a biotech with the backing of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, more than tripled in its first day of trading.
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Gates, the Microsoft (MSFT) founder whose foundation has studied pandemics for years and is now involved in fighting coronavirus, warned that just because some areas looking to reopen have experienced relatively small outbreaks doesn’t mean they’re not at risk.
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Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is turning over further development of its tuberculosis disease candidate to the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute for further development.
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Scientists say they have made a breakthrough on developing a contraceptive pill that only needs to be take once a month.
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