Enterprise Innovation brings internal and external collaboration opportunities to our faculty and trainees. These programs provide extra funding and opportunities to work with industry to advance faculty/trainees' translational research projects.
Please contact Dr. James Bellush at james.bellush@cornell.edu if you have any questions or need guidance on your application.
1. Sanofi: iDEA-iTECH North America 2024 – 2025
Objective:
- The $150k Sanofi iDEA-iTECH award aims to de-risk promising translational projects featuring digital, data tools, and novel technologies across various therapeutic focus areas
- Each selected investigator will collaborate with a Sanofi scientific expert for a 1-year award cycle and potentially, an extended collaboration if there is mutual interest
Eligibility Guidelines:
- Pre-proposals must be non-confidential
- Must not include 3rd party collaborators (academic partners permitted)
- Must outline research milestones and work-plan achievable in 12 month time frame
- CTL at WCM office must validate the application prior to submission
- Please provide CTL contact email in “General Information”
- James Bellush, Manager, Scientific Scouting
- Email: james.bellush@cornell.edu
Award and Application Information:
- $150,000 for 12 months (direct + indirect costs included)
- Additional R&D support and guidance included from Sanofi
- Read the attached
instruction to learn more about the application process and therapeutic areas of interest - Please fill out the attached
pre-proposal template and email to CTL contact James Bellush (james.bellush@cornell.edu) by December 2, 2024 - Pre-proposals must be submitted by the CTL office to Sanofi by December 12, 2024
2. Rita Allen Foundation: Award in Pain
- Eligibility: Young investigators pursuing basic and translational research in pain who have committed start-up funds and independent laboratory space (<3 years into tenure track position).
- Projects should be directed toward investigating the molecular biology of pain and/or topics related to development of novel analgesics.
- Submission Details: All applications must be submitted through the Rita Allen grants portal
- Award Details: $150,000 over 3 years
- Submission Deadline: December 11, 2024
3. American Thoracic Society: Partner Grants Program
- Following grants do not require an LOI, please follow the link below each respective grant for the application portal
- ATS/ALA Commemorative 120th Anniversary Joint Research Award
- Funding early stage investigators conducting basic, translational, or clinical research with a high liklihood of advancing the understanding of lung disease
- $120,000 over two years
- Application link to ATS/ALA grant
- ALA/ATS/CHEST Respiratory Health Equity Research Award
- Funding early stage investigators addressing topics on improving clinical outcomes in preventing / treating lung disease in groups which are disproportionately impacted
- $200,000 over two years
- Application link to ALA/ATS/CHEST grant
- ATS/Alpha-1 Foundation Young Investigator Grant in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
- Funding early-career investigators pursuing a research career in AAT deficiency
- $50,000 for one year
- Application link to ATS/AAD grant
- ATS/Chiesi USA, Inc. Research Grant in Obstructive Lung Disease
- Funding early stage investigators in obstructive lung disease through basic, translational, or clinical research
- $50,000 for one year
- Application link to ATS/Chiesi grant
- ATS/Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Research Grant in Nasal High Flow
- Funding early stage investigators researching respiratory support with nasal high flow therapy in patients managed in the ER, intensive care units / wards
- $50,000 for one year
- Application link to ATS/Fisher Paykel grant
- ATS/Margaret W. Leigh/PCD Foundation Early Career Investigator Award
- Funding early stage investigators and fellows interested in primary ciliary dyskinesia research
- $60,000 for one year
- Application link to ATS/PCD grant
- ATS/Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research Grant
- Funding early stage investigators exploring questions related to the basic, translational, or clinical science of sarcoidosis
- $100,000 over two years
- Application link to ATS/Sarcoidosis Foundation grant
- ATS Early Career Investigator Award in Pulmonary Vascular Disease
- Funding early stage investigators conducting research on pulmonary vascular disease mechanisms or biology
- $100,000 for one year
- Application link to ATS/JNJ grant
Full Applications Due: December 16, 2024
4. Dana Foundation: Neuroscience and Society Pilot Grants
- Eligibility: Investigators focused on strengthening collaboration between neuroscience students, scholars, and policymakers to advance neuroscience solutions to common societal problems.
- Submission Details: Letters of intent should be directed towards one of three programs that support education, training, and public engagement:
- Dana Education: Strengthening neuroscience's positive role in the world by sparking interest in and supporting education around neuroscience and the many ways it interfaces with our everyday lives.
- Dana NextGen: Strengthening neuroscience’s positive role in the world by developing a new generation of interdisciplinary experts who shepherd neuroscience uses for a better world
- Dana Frontiers: Strengthening neuroscience’s positive role in the world by increasing engagement with diverse populations, deepening trust and informing policy
- Award Details: $180,000 over 18 months
- Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024