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Grand Challenge #14: Develop Technologies that Allow Assessment of Individuals for Multiple Conditions or Pathogens at Point of Care; A potential benefit of this challenge is the rapid detection and diagnoses of disease exposure. At Northwestern University, Dr. David Kelso’s team is trying to develop rapid and affordable point-of-care systems ...
Grand challenges are more than ordinary research questions or priorities, they are end results or outcomes that are global in scale; very difficult to accomplish, yet offer hope of being ultimately tractable; demand an extensive number of research projects across many technical and non-technical disciplines and accompanied by well-defined metrics.
The Grand Challenges for Social Work Fellowship program now funds 13 Fellows (one for each Grand Challenge) and 12 Honorable mention scholars whose work was selected for its ability to build on the work of Grand Challenge Networks and to advance the profession and strengthen society.
The fourteen grand challenges are announced in October 2003. Two new challenges are added in 2011. [122] [123] 2003: Program launch: The 3 by 5 Initiative is launched by the World Health Organization to provide antiretroviral treatment (ART) to patients with HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries, beginning the scaling of ART across the ...
The Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge aimed to address three of the 14 grand challenges, making solar energy economical, advance personalise learning and advance health informatics. The preliminary stage of the competition was held from July to September 2015 a total of 65 teams from 151 countries worked on providing solutions to ...
As a result of NAE's Grand Challenge efforts, three national engineering academies–The National Academy of Engineering of the United States, The Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering–organized a joint Global Grand Challenges Summit, held in London on March 12–13, 2013. [73]
DARPA 2004 Grand Challenge. DARPA Grand Challenge (2004 and 2005) was a prize competition to spur the development of autonomous vehicle technologies. The $1 million prize went unclaimed as no vehicles could complete the difficult desert route from Barstow, CA, to Primm, NV, on March 13, 2004.
The DARPA Grand Challenge is a prize competition for American autonomous vehicles, ... and $500,000, respectively. 14 new teams have qualified in year 2015. [5]