Interesting. Would Gates and a couple others be willing to cut a few large checks to just make it happen? This is something that should be fast-tracked. As in right now, please.
Ian from Immunity Project here. We've actually chatted with a few of these large foundations and they are very interested. They want to see some Phase I data first, so that's why we went ahead with the crowdfunding campaign to help us get to that point! Check it out: http://pledge.immunityproject.org
Have any of them giving you all benchmarks to hit to secure funding?