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EU launches prize to honor research on childbirth death prevention

Xinhua, April 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

The European Commission, together with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation, launched the "Birth Day Prize" on Thursday.

This cash prize would award up to three innovators for identifying and implementing the most effective solutions to prevent death and complications during pregnancy and childbirth, according to a Commission statement.

Proposed solutions can be of a clinical, technological or managerial nature and need to be novel, safe and scalable.

For this prize, the European Commission would commit 1 million euros (1.13 million U.S. dollars) under Horizon 2020, the research and innovation program of the European Union (EU).

In addition, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged another 1 million euros (1.13 million U.S. dollars), while the Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation would donate 500,000 euros (570,000 U.S. dollars). Endit