Talk:Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

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Hello editors, I'm Lee and I work for Gates MRI. I have some suggestions for improving the article, but I won't make any changes myself due to my conflict of interest. I think that the changes I'm going to suggest will help the article better fit Knowledge guidelines on style and layout and make it

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section because that seems to be a more standard heading that better fits Knowledge's style guidelines. I've prepared four paragraphs for that section, but to make this request more digestible I'll only put the first one here. My suggestion for the first paragraph is to have it read something like

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very quickly and didn't see that; I am not well versed in financial and accounting documentation. Does that come from the "$ 100M-a-year nonprofit biotech" headline in the Fierce Biotech article? That article, from 2018, states that "Funding will tick up over that period, too, topping out at a

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Klbrain - greetings, this is Lee with one final request. Please could we delete the reference "Its CEO is Penny Heaton, MD", in the final sentence of the first paragraph of the article? As mentioned further down the piece, our current CEO is Emilio Emini. Thank you so much for your help.

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Upon its founding, the organization said it would focus on the early stages of research for cures and treatments before working with larger companies for large-scale production once proof of effectiveness had been established. Among its first treatments researched was revaccination with the

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Hello editors, Lee here again with a bit of a tricky request. I noticed a few places in the article where there is some information that is either outdated or improperly sourced. I suggest removing that information. In particular, I'm looking at the following:

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Thanks for the ping; was happy to have a look at those, editing in 4 separate edits for each point. I mostly agree, although have kept some of the cited WHO statistics because of the context it provides for the 2019 change/addition of research focus.

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to create the Project to Accelerate New Treatments for Tuberculosis (PAN-TB), a group working on developing new treatment regimens for tuberculosis. Gates MRI licensed the M72 TB vaccine from GSK in 2020 and began an

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that Knowledge does not like mission statements and since the information there is demonstrated by other parts of the article, this section seems redundant after the recent changes have been made.

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section. This is some more recent content about some research that Gates MRI is working on and some basic information about the leadership. I thought this could go at the end of the

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I think this sums up things nicely and removes some outdated information. Please let me know what you think! As always, I won't make any changes myself because of my COI.

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vaccine during late adolescence to further increase resistance to tuberculosis. As of May 2022, that research was still in clinical trials, expected to conclude in 2026.

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I think this helps expand on the early history of Gates MRI and has a bit more of an encyclopedic tone. Please let me know what you think and if you have any questions.

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Let me know what you think! I know infoboxes are in most articles so hopefully this helps with that. I have a conflict of interest so I won't make the changes myself.

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Done, and thanks for your patience. FYI for future reference, requests are usually answered faster if you use the Edit Request template each time. Take care,

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An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes.

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Since then, the group has partnered with several others to explore treatments for various diseases. In 2020, Gates MRI partnered with

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The sentence "Pharmaceutical companies usually have a high failure rate for drug development." doesn't seem relevant to Gates MRI.

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Hi editors, I noticed the lead was pretty outdated after the recent updates. I had a suggestion for what it could look like:

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Hello editors, I thought it might be helpful if I put together an infobox for this article. This is what I came up with:

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Very reasonable; done (with some minor edits). I (and I'm sure others) would be happy to look at other proposals.

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I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page.

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Agree that those are appropriate contributions. I've add this, separating those two paragraphs as perhaps

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section reads like a mission statement and is only sourced back to the Gates MRI website. I've seen in

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article that's already present in the live article. It should carry over if this text is implemented.

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This seems fine to me — the only catch is it'd be nice to cite the 100 mil budget figure. I checked

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I think this helps complete the timeline so far for Gates MRI and clarifies the current leadership.

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Emilio A. Emini said the organization focuses in particular on diseases that are most present in

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which investment in treatment by large pharmaceutical companies is "limited and insufficient."

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for a new tuberculosis treatment developed by PAN-TB were announced. Gates MRI partnered with

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Please let me know what you think! As always I won't make any changes myself due to my COI.

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Thank you for doing that, and offering to help more in the future! I really appreciate it.

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I don't think describing Gates MRI as a "biotech-within-a-charity" (as is done in the

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section) is accurate. Gates MRI is a medical research organization, not a biotech.

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In 2021, the Gates MRI partnered with the biotechnology firm Atreca to license a

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would you be willing to take a look at this as well? I'd really appreciate it!

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would you be willing to review this request as well? I'd really appreciate it!

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Please let me know what you think. I'm happy to answer any questions I can.

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is an American nonprofit medical research organization headquartered in

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in 2022 to further develop drugs to treat drug-resistant strains of TB.

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Done, with some minor changes and re-organization of existing material.

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section and partially new content. Here's what I suggest adding to the

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Places where the fatalities related to diseases and infant mortality (

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section. It's partially some reworking of content in the current

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Hello editors, I've got some final suggestions for updating the

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