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. American Cancer Society: Extramural Discovery Science Accelerator Award
- Eligibility: Independent investigators seeking funding support for key experiments that will advance commercialization efforts of ongoing translational cancer projects. Proposals should include commercially focused plans to license technology into established company or start-up if milestones successfully reached. Projects in scope include:
- Dosing, toxicity, or efficacy testing
- Testing of patient samples to correlate clinical outcome
- Technologies for healthcare delivery
- Submission Details: Application materials available on ProposalCentral
- Award Details: Budgets up to $75,000 total costs for one-year term (no IDC)
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025
2. CITEC: Point of Care Tools to Improve Early Cancer Detection
- Eligibility: The Center for Innovation and Translation of Point-of-Care Technologies for Expanded Cancer Care Access (CITEC) seeks to support and accelerate the development and adoption of affordable new technologies to improve the early detection of pre-cancer and cancer in community and home settings, including hard-to-reach and rural settings in the US.
- Award support for point-of-care tests to improve screening, early detection and/or diagnosis of pre-cancers and early cancers that arise in epithelial tissues in organ sites accessible for early detection.
- Priority for:
- Cancers currently diagnosed radiologically (e.g. lung, breast)
- Anal neoplasia screening
- Histopathologic diagnosis of cancer at POC
- Submission Details: Applications must be submitted through online portal
- Award Details: Budgets up to $150,000 for 12-month projects
Submission Deadline: June 6, 2025
3. PORTENT: Point of Care Innovation Award
- Eligibility: The Point-of-Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer (PORTENT) Center is a one-of-a-kind network of clinical, training, and device development facilities with expertise in point-of-care diagnostics, their application and commercialization.
- Innovation Award is intended to support commercialization activities for point-of-care diagnostic technologies addressing specific issues in nutrition, infectious disease and cancer
- Submission Details: Applications must be submitted through online portal
- Award Details: Budgets up to $100,000 for 12-month projects
Submission Deadline: June 6, 2025
4. Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE): Catalyst Award
Eligibility: Independent researchers seeking funding to accelerate discovery / development of transformative therapies in epilepsy. Award is designed to support acquisition of data necessary to attract larger commercial funding opportunities for translational therapy.
- Submission Details: Portal opens on Tuesday, May 13. Please find relevant application information here.
- Award Details: $250,000 – $250,000 for two years
- Submission Deadline: June 10, 2025
5. Michelson Foundation: Next Generation Grants
- Eligibility: Annual award supporting early-career investigators working to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research for major global diseases.
- In-scope projects will aim to tackle existing roadblocks for human vaccine development and expand limited understanding of immune biology to enable successful vaccine and immunotherapy development
- Proposals must be from investigators under 35 years of age
- Submission Details: Applications must be submitted through online portal
- Award Details: Budgets up to $150,000 for 12-month projects
Submission Deadline: June 22, 2025
6. Pilot Research Program for the Study and Support of Caregivers
The Program for the Study and Support of Caregivers, a new program in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, is pleased to announce its inaugural pilot research program. The Program is intended to serve as an incubator for new research, exploration of new interventions, a training venue, and a vehicle to promote new collaborations.
The program will support two levels of awards:
- Early-Stage Investigator Pilot Award
- Up to 50K
- Up to 2 years
- Trainee Pilot Award (post docs/fellows, PhD students, medical students)
- Up to 10K
- 1 year
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025.
Anticipate funding one Early-Stage Investigator Award and two Trainee Awards in the current funding year. Funding decisions will be made by July 30th, 2025. For program guidelines and application forms please contact Adrienne Jaret, MSPH, Program Administrator at adj2012@med.cornell.edu.