Noted Indian economist Kalpana Kochhar, who heads the Human Resources Department of the IMF, is retiring next month after serving for over three decades with the organisation to join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to PTI report. Kochhar, who served in various senior positions during her three decades at the International Monetary Fund,…
Amazon Care, the medical care arm for Amazon’s employees, has recently partnered with Bill Gates-backed research program SCAN to pick up and deliver at-home coronavirus test kits in Seattle. As reported first by CNBC, Amazon is going to be working with Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network, or SCAN, a new research initiative backed in part by…
Microsoft founder’s The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with Wellcome Trust and Mastercard recently announced a new fund to accelerate technologies designed to identify, assess, develop and scale treatments to the COVID-19 epidemic. According to an official statement, The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will evaluate new and repurposed drugs and biologics to treat patients with…