Bill Gates gives Scottish University £1m

by mudricky | April 7, 2009 at 10:55 pm

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Super rich Bill Gates have give £1 million to the Universty of Edinburgh in Scotland to help research childhood pneumonia, something that kills millions of young children every year.

The money will be used to help fund mathematicians to work with the doctors and researchers to help predict how effective prevention measures and treatments might be.

SCOTTISH researchers have been given more than £1 million by billionaire computer tycoon Bill Gates to help tackle the world's biggest childhood killer, it was announced yesterday.
The University of Edinburgh team have secured the funding from the world's richest man in efforts to curb childhood pneumonia, which kills two million under-fives each year.

Deaths from childhood pneumonia occur mainly in youngsters from poor backgrounds with limited access to healthcare. In total, the funding, from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will see £1.36 million spent on tackling the disease.