Gates, Bill

Gates, Bill (b. 1955) An entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author bom in Seattle, Gates became interested in computers as a teens er. He left Harvard in 1975 to cofound and to serve as chairman (until 2006) of Microsoft, which developed software for IBM and other systems before launching its own system in 1985. The result, Microsoft Windows, became the dominant software product in the worldwide personal computer market. Profits from his enterprise made Gates one of the world s richest people, and he has used his vast wealth to assist a wide variety of charitable causes. 

Population Council, Bill Melinda Gates Foundation supports clinical trials of Population Council s lead candidate AIDS-fighting microbicide [press release]. Available at http //biz.yahoo.com/020202/22000 l.html. Accessed April 2002, February 2, 2002. 

Private philanthropy occupies an important place in the past and present of global health. For example, the Rockefeller Foundation has made significant contributions to public health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made major investments in this regard over the past 15 years. While these contributions are welcome, they cannot and will not form the basis of concerted global public sector action to control an entire class of infectious diseases. Private philanthropy is, by definition, not accountable to the public in the way that action undertaken by the public sector is. It is neither fully transparent nor predictable, nor is it subject to the checks and balances that come from engaging in multilateral cooperation involving national health authorities that are accountable to their citizens. 

What do Bill Gates, Debbie Fields, and my cousin Len have in common Yes, they all started multi-million-dollar businesses. But more important, they had the same opportunities that countless other people had, and they worked hard to turn those opportunities into success stories. 

CDD has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) which has enabled them to build strong relationships with the TB pilot labs and also build the Collaborative Drug Discovery Tuberculosis Database (CDD TB DB, accessed at http //www.collaborativedrug.com/register). We have also... 

The CDD TB database is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Grant 49852 Collaborative drug discovery for TB through a novel database of SAR data optimized to promote data archiving and sharing ). 

Private and public funding of foundations such as the Global Alliance ifcr Vaccines and Immunization (QS), suppoted by the Bill Melinda Gates... 

Steven B. Buchsbaum is currently a senior program officer in the Global Health Technologies program at the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation. His areas of focus... 

Steven B. Buchsbaum, Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Sheldon K. Friedlander (deceased), University of California, Los Angeles Murray Hamlet, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Kingston, Massachusetts... 

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Having an empty house of marriage, for example, doesn t mean that you ll always be single. Just ask Elizabeth Taylor, who has had eight husbands (so far), despite the fact that her seventh house is totally vacant. Similarly, an unoccupied second house of money doesn t mean you re destined for poverty. Look at Bill Gates, the youngest self-made billionaire in history. His second house is empty (as is his eighth house, which is also associated with money). 

Conjunction When these two planets are cheek by jowl, you have strong convictions and can become a powerful agent of change. One example Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, who has this conjunction in the third house of communication. 

The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation is the world s largest private philanthropic organization (http / www.gatesfoundation.org last... 

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