The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that they are now accepting nominations for The Gates Vaccine Innovation Award to celebrate and spur transformative ideas for achieving impact through immunization.

The Gates Foundation invites nominations of individuals or groups who have achieved significant improvements in the prevention, control, or elimination of vaccine preventable diseases through immunization.

Full Gates Vaccine Innovation Award description: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/gates-vaccine-innovation-award

Gates Foundation Deadline: August 31, 2012

For related questions, contact Martha Coleman, Director of Principal Gifts for Foundation Relations at OSU Foundation at 541-737-6961 or Martha.coleman@oregonstate.edu.