Trevor Mundel, President of the Global Health Division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation(center) met with Andrew Chey, Vice-President of SK discovery and Jae-Yong Ahn, CEO of SK bioscience at the foundation offices in Seattle, USA. They discussed current research and development collaborations as well as the potential of future partnerships. The foundation and SK bioscience plan to successfully complete cooperative projects and to expand opportunities for future collaboration to better address global health needs and to respond to future epidemics and pandemics.