Funding Opportunity: Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) Capital & Women’s Health Programs 2025

URL: https://www.masslifesciences.com/funding-programs/

With a mission like no other, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) aims to accelerate breakthroughs and opportunities for all. Made possible by a $1.6 billion public commitment, the MLSC launches funding programs, partnerships, and investments with a focus that is not just a single cluster, but a Commonwealth. We are home to an ecosystem that we’re building together. At the center of it all, we’re helping the life sciences move further, faster.

There are several grants in the 2025 program year including:

  • Bits to Bytes: Grants for scientific projects that generate and analyze large datasets to answer pressing life science questions, and to attract and train data scientists in the Commonwealth.
  • Novel Therapeutics Delivery:Capitalize and incentivize translational projects to address complex challenges in “therapeutic” delivery—from biomanufacturing, to targeted delivery, to biomaterials and more.
  • Research Infrastructure:Grants for capital projects that support the life sciences ecosystem in Massachusetts by enabling and supporting life sciences research and development in the Commonwealth.
  • First Look Awards: To support early-stage exploratory translational research at Massachusetts research institutions that furthers our understanding of sex and gender differences especially for diseases or conditions that affect women solely, disproportionately, or differentially.
  • Health Equity Accelerator: Focuses on advancing health equity in underserved communities. By integrating innovative solutions with a life sciences focus, participants can address unmet healthcare needs, reduce disparities, and promote health equity. Seeks applications to develop transformative solutions in targeted areas under the health equity lens including but not limited to
    • Clinical Trials (education or recruitment)
    • Precision Medicine and Genomics
    • AI and Machine Learning
    • Medical Devices
    • Point-of-Care Diagnostics
    • Biotechnology and Drug Discovery
    • Preventative Health
    • Mental Health Screening and Assessment Tools
  • Women’s Health Innovation Grants:Focuses on projects with translational potential and preliminary supporting data, but still require a key set of proof-of-concept experiments prior to attracting a commercial partner or spinning out into a new company.
  • Women’s Health Collaboration: Supports collaborative projects that aims to improve the discovery, technical innovation, and/or analysis of datasets to answer pressing life science questions around women’s health.

To learn more about these programs, register for one of three informational sessions MLSC staff will be hosting:

FUNDING INFORMATION:

Amounts range from $50,000 to up to $5,000,000 depending on the program.

ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:

Eligibility criteria vary by funding track within MLSC. Please refer to the specific links above for detailed eligibility criteria for the funding of interest.

SUBMISSION PROCESS:

There are no limits to the number of proposals BU can submit so there is no internal review process. PIs/Project Teams are limited to one application per grant.

Submit your application directly to MLSC by applying here. All proposals must be submitted to Sponsored Programs per their proposal submission policy and well in advance of the submission deadline date.

Please reach out to Industry Engagement to identify and facilitate the required industry partnerships for:

  • Bits to Bytes
  • Novel Therapeutics Delivery
  • Women’s Health Collaboration

For assistance with proposal development, please contact the Office of Foundation Relations at ofr@bu.edu.

DEADLINES:

**Reach out to Sponsored Programs about any specific submission policies**

Sponsor Deadline: Friday, December 6, 2024, at 1 pm

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