BGI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sign Memorandum of Understanding on collaboration for global health and agricultural development
BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, announced today that it and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a collaboration on global health and agricultural development with the goal of achieving common objectives in health and agricultural development, and meaningfully contributing to the achievement of one or more of the Millennium Development Goals.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has called for increased multi-sectoral collaboration to enable Nigeria to achieve the health-related goals by 2015.