Want Wider Recognition for Your Idea? Ignition Awards Offer More Than Funding

Let’s start by making one thing clear: the Ignition Awards are not your average grant awards. In fact, we don’t even think of them as grants. Why not?  Well, traditional grants provide funding; not funding in addition to training workshops, network-building, and practitioner feedback. Other grants are given to recipients to help finance promising ideas, but with little or no interaction with experts in the very fields where those ideas could take hold! And more conventional grants may help pay for your research, but they don’t get you any closer to understanding how your idea can make an impact in the world; how it might be commercialized.

Announcing the 2021 Ignition Award Winners

Technology Development is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Ignition Award. The Ignition program awards $75K and $25K, one-year grants to Boston University faculty to help launch promising new technologies into the marketplace.  Congratulations to this year’s winners, listed below. Members of the BU research community can reach out to Rana K. Gupta, […]

Call for Proposals: 2021 Pfizer CTI

We are pleased to announce a call for proposals for Pfizer’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) program for collaborative development of novel biotherapeutics. Deadline: June 28, 2021 Areas of Interest and Targets/Pathways of Focus: Oncology: Targeting tumor cells, immuno-oncology, and cancer neo-epitopes that could be leveraged in cancer vaccines  Internal Medicine: Obesity/cachexia, heart failure, diabetic/chronic […]

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