Applications Due: November 1, 2021 at 5PM
Amount: $1,000,000 per grant which can be expensed over a
period of time not to exceed three years
In order to enhance our ability to fund early stage
research, Dana-Farber created a venture philanthropy project known as the
Innovations Fund. The Innovations Funds are comprised of two separate funds,
the Innovations Investment Fund (INV) and the Innovations Research Fund (IRF).
To fulfill the goals of the Innovations Funds, the
resources provided in the IRF will be
used to support basic discovery research that are high risk/high reward for
which little preliminary data may exist. This support will take a few different
forms including recruitment of junior faculty in the basic sciences and
purchases of shared capital equipment. However, the majority of the resources
will be used to support basic research projects proposed by Dana-Farber
faculty.