Charles (Skip) Smith of Seattle Children's Hospital in the U.S. seeks to develop a low cost pulmonary surfactant that can be administered by minimally educated health care workers to premature infants as they are being born as a means to avoid infant intubation as well as injury to premature lungs.
Information taken from Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration Grants, awarded grants summaries.
Funding Source
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation