Funding Opportunity: MLSC Women’s Health Innovation Grants
Funding Opportunity: MLSC Women’s Health Innovation Grants
URL: https://www.masslifesciences.com/programs/innovation-grant/
OBJECTIVES:
Women’s health has been historically underfunded. Consequently, the space has suffered from a lack of innovative technologies and advancements. There is a significant need to better understand gender biology to be able to effectively treat diseases that exclusively, predominately, or differentially affect women. The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center aims to support translational research in women’s health and gender biology that will ultimately lead to commercial opportunities that address the lack of innovative technologies. The Women’s Health Innovation Grants are aimed at innovations that have translational potential, preliminary supporting data, but still require a key set of proof of concept experiments prior to attracting a commercial partner or spinning out into a new company. Projects could include hiring a post doc to perform research, working with a CRO, etc. in order to file patents, enter into a sponsored research agreement, etc.
FUNDING INFORMATION:
Individual grants of up to $300,000 will be awarded to Massachusetts-based women’s health researchers
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
Eligible applicants must be a full or part-time faculty at a Massachusetts-based research institution proposing a project that is focused on increasing our understanding of sex and gender differences in biology (that has translational potential) or developing solutions for diseases or conditions that affect women exclusively, predominately, or differentially. Funding must be used to support an experiment or experiments that increase(s) the translational opportunity for the technology with a defined deliverable such as filing of patents, securing sponsored research agreement, attracting other industry support, etc.
Please see full list of eligibility requirements and evaluation process.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
As this opportunity is not limited, the Office of Research will not be conducting an internal review process.
For assistance with industry partnerships, please contact Marc Scatamacchia in Industry Engagement at marcs1@bu.edu
For assistance with proposal development, please contact Katharine Canfield in Foundation Relations at kcanfiel@bu.edu
DEADLINES:
Sponsor Deadline: Friday, March 12, 2021 at 12pm EST