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. Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation: Reach Grants
- Eligibility: Pediatric cancer researchers seeking additional funding support to translate their late stage preclinical studies into early stage clinical trials. Examples of eligible projects would include: completion of IND-enabling studies (pharmacology, toxicology), building preclinical data packages to inform clinical trial development, validation of novel biomarkers for patient selection in trials, etc.
- Submission Details: Full application guidelines and documentation here:
- Award Details: $250k for two years
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2025 by 8pm EST
2. Wellcome Trust: Mental Health Award, Target Validation for Drug Discovery
- Eligibility: Provides funding for validation activities for novel targets with clear therapeutic concept and strong biological rationale related to early intervention in anxiety, depression, and / or psychosis.
- Successful projects will generate data confirming that modulation of target (receptor, enzyme, biomolecules, gut microbiome, etc) has potential to lead to clinical benefit (including toxicity considerations) and lay groundwork for drug discovery campaign
- Submission Details: Find proposal guidelines, evaluation criteria, and budgetary considerations at the Wellcome Trust page.
- Award Details: $700k for two years
Submission Deadline: Preliminary application deadline April 15, 2025
3. American Society of Hematology: ASH Bridge Grant Program
- Eligibility: ASH Bridge Grant program is intended to help sustain hematology research and member retention in the face of severe funding reductions for the NIH. Eligible applicants will be tenure track faculty with ASH membership who have applied for an NIH R01 grant or equivalent (R23, R29, R37) in the past 18 months.
- Submission Details: Please see required materials here:
- Bridge Grant application, budget supplemental form, NIH biosketch, institutional commitment letter.
- Award Details: $150k for one-year (used for PI salary + fringe, travel, personnel, or research equipment / supplies.
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025
4. American Heart Association: Pilot Grants for AHA Protein Binding Atlas
- Eligibility: AHA is soliciting applications for innovative pilot projects aimed at predicting and understanding protein-protein / protein-small molecule interactions involved in key biological processes associated with cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic diseases, including obesity. Proposed projects are encouraged to utilize the AHA Protein Portal for computational modeling, proteomics, network biology, and systems biology to deliver predictive insights for therapeutics development.
- Submission Details: Applications must be submitted using ProposalCentral
- Award Details: $100k for one year
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025