Corporate Funding Opportunities

Amazon Research Awards (ARA) is announcing the spring 2024 call for proposals for the AI for Information Security and Sustainability research areas.

1. AI for Information Security: AWS is committed to helping customers achieve the highest levels of security in the cloud. Our security services use cutting-edge machine learning (ML) algorithms to improve the security posture of AWS accounts. We aim to continue advancing possible solutions for some of the most challenging problems in information security. We are seeking to fund machine learning research on topics in information security.
2. Sustainability: Amazon's Sustainability Research Awards program invites proposals for innovative projects that merge machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies to support carbon abatement strategies. This call seeks to fund projects that address the challenges associated with generating consistent, transparent, and accurate carbon measurements.

More information here.

Google Ph.D. Fellowships directly support graduate students as they pursue their Ph.D., as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor.

Nurturing and maintaining strong relations with the academic community is a top priority at Google. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising PhD candidates of all backgrounds who seek to influence the future of technology. Google’s mission is to foster inclusive research communities and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.

This is a LIMITED opportunity. Faculty with eligible doctoral students are encouraged to contact the Corporate Relations team for more information.

Amyloidosis is often misdiagnosed. For example, it is estimated that the correct diagnosis of TTR amyloidosis is delayed by years, in part because it is a multisystemic disorder. Our goal is to help accelerate this patient journey by supporting capacity building programs.

In recent years, Global Bridges at Mayo Clinic and Pfizer Global Medical Grants have supported independent projects focused on raising awareness and closing knowledge gaps to reduce the time it takes for patients to be correctly diagnosed and make treatment more accessible, while supporting the development of a global network of TTR amyloidosis experts. Expanding the community of practice will help decrease the distance patients need to travel to be diagnosed, although valuable guidance may still be obtained from experienced centers further from home. This RFP is a continuation of this program.

Pfizer has committed $225,000 to be divided among up to three awardees. Research funding requests are out-of-scope for this program.

The 2024 application is not yet open. The 2023 overview is provided below for reference.

Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) Nanomanufacturing Materials and Processes (NMP) member companies are pleased to solicit white papers for possible funding in 2023.

The call is open to all domestic and foreign universities and may be addressed by an individual investigator or a research team. Our selection process is divided into two stages. Interested parties are requested to submit a 1-page white paper, which should identify what can be done in a three-year period beginning January 1, 2024. A successfully selected white paper will result in an invitation to submit a full proposal. These proposals will be further down selected for SRC research contracts.

These projects will address existing and emerging challenges in information and communication technologies (ICT) and associated technologies, as outlined in the Decadal Plan for Semiconductors, and accelerating innovation in application. SRC and a consortium of industry experts have refined these seismic shifts into the Microelectronic and Advanced Packaging Technologies (MAPT) Roadmap. MAPT is a critical multidisciplinary field with the potential to transform the design and manufacture of future microchips. The interim report is now available (https://srcmapt.org/) and will be used as a guide for future research activities.

It is the intention of the members for selected projects to be reviewed and renewed annually, but we anticipate that a project will have a lifetime of 3 years which should help support a mix of research scholars. SRC projects typically involve 1 or more research scholars doing a variety of doctoral dissertations, graduate research, undergraduate projects, and some post-doctoral work.

SRC expects to support each project at $105K (USD) per year. The number of the contracts awarded will be determined by the availability of funds, the support of the research needs, and by the number of high-quality proposals. Proposals offering funding leverage (other funding resources related and beneficial to the proposed work) are encouraged and details should be described (ex. Fellowships, student support, fabrication support, etc.).

Thermo Fisher Scientific values and supports independent research to promote excellence in molecular profiling. The Oncomine Clinical Research Grant program supports investigator-initiated studies (IIS) and education projects in oncology research, with the goal to increase high-quality molecular profiling and to help democratize access to sequencing technologies. Since the program’s inception in 2020, the Oncomine Clinical Research Grant program has awarded more than $4 million in funding and instrumentation to labs around the world. Twenty-three grants have been presented to laboratories from 14 different countries across five continents. Previously supported projects have focused on many different aspects of clinical cancer research, with topics in solid tumor, pediatric oncology, hemato-oncology, immuno-oncology, and liquid biopsy research.

The 2024 application has not yet opened.

The SAMSUNG Global Research Outreach (GRO) Program is an important part of growing SAMSUNG's academic research engagement and collaboration platforms. World-class university researchers have been annually invited since 2009 to propose novel research ideas and to work with our R&D teams to foster technological innovation. This has resulted in actively collaborative relationships with over 150 leading universities worldwide. Selected GRO projects will be funded with one year. This project may be extended up to three years, based on annual research outcomes and necessity for further research partnership determined by SAMSUNG. Joint research proposals from multiple universities are welcome and acceptable. The GRO Program represents an opportunity for SAMSUNG and universities to build a mutually beneficial research relationship and we look forward to your participation.

The 2024 cycle is not yet open. Research themes for 2023 are listed below for reference.

• Machine intelligence
• Quantum computing
• New computing
• New memory
• Semicon. process
• Semicon. equipment
• Semicon. materials
• 6G communication
• Mobile solution
• Future mobility
• Environmental tech. for sustainability

The Cigna Group Foundation is committed to eliminating health disparities and improving health and well-being for all. We wish to partner with nonprofits who are addressing the root causes of health inequity, including supporting under-resourced and systemically disadvantaged communities with poor social determinants of health (SDOH).1

Given recent incidents here in the U.S. and around the world, the persistence of COVID-19 and the economic climate, this grant cycle will focus on funding programs that address improving and ensuring good mental health.

The 2024 application has not yet opened.

CooperVision is dedicated to raising the bar on product excellence and creating the next generation of contact lenses. To accomplish this, we maintain a strong commitment to advanced research and development.

The goal of the Science and Technology Award Program is to bring award recipients and CooperVision scientists together to explore new areas of technology advancement. Proposals should demonstrate significant potential for research discoveries within CooperVision key focus areas. We recognize and highly value the need to find the best ideas that have the potential to deliver benefits to people across the globe.

The 2024 application cycle has not yet opened. The 2023 focus areas are listed below for reference.

The key focus areas for 2023 are:

• Understanding Childhood Myopia Development
• Technologies to Prevent Myopia Onset
• Strategies to prevent development of symptomatology in new contact lens wearers
• Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Contact Lens Fitting and Diagnostics, including:
  ChatGPT , Bard, etc. – Applications for Optometry and Orthokeratology (Ortho-K)

The Research Scholars Program supports innovative research from emerging investigators around the world to incorporate new perspectives in our pursuit of scientific understanding and progress. We believe that new, diverse voices and research topics are needed to advance scientific knowledge in areas of unmet medical need and create a healthier world. Each of our programs is overseen by a scientific review committee of experts in their respective fields who are independent from Gilead to ensure equal, objective evaluation of all applicants and their applications. This enables us to maintain the programs overall integrity and competitive standards, and to ensure awards support the next generation of breakthrough scientific discovery. The Research Scholars Program awards provide two years of financial support to junior faculty researchers. Each award is funded $180,000.

The 2024 application cycle for HIV research has not yet opened.

Gilead is making a specific request for research study proposals in the disease area of HIV, as further scientific data are needed on B/F/TAF and LEN to support clinical and PWH decisions and medical management. The RESONATE RFP Program is in addition to Gilead’s existing Investigator Sponsored Research Program. Both programs support investigator-sponsored and collaborative research conducted by clinicians and researchers on Gilead's marketed products and/or within therapeutic areas of interest to the company.

Through the RESONATE RFP Program, Gilead will evaluate and potentially support research proposals which address one or more of the following topic areas:

• Engagement strategies or tactics, including innovative approaches to the utilization of B/F/TAF, that improve HIV care and patient reported outcomes in PWH (especially those facing challenges or barriers to sustained engagement in care)
• Determining the effectiveness, safety, and/or persistence of B/F/TAF in populations facing barriers to access, adherence, and/or quality of care
• Effectiveness, safety and adherence/persistence of LEN for HTE individuals in real world settings
• Drivers and barriers for implementation of LEN for HTE PWH

The 2024 application has not yet opened.

The Award for Inclusion Research Program recognizes and supports academic research in computing and technology that addresses the needs of historically marginalized groups globally. Launched in 2020, the Award for Inclusion Research (AIR) Program is an ongoing effort to support innovative research and professors working to create positive societal impact.

Research areas include:

• Accessibility
• Collaboration
• Collective & society-centered AI
• Impact of AI on education

The 2024 application cycle has not yet opened.

NVIDIA has long believed that investing in university talent is beneficial to the industry and key to our continued growth and success. The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides funding in the amount of up to $60,000 per award to PhD students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in accelerated computing and its applications. NVIDIA particularly invites submissions from students pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. We select students each year who have the talent, aptitude and initiative to work closely with us early in their careers. Recipients not only receive crucial funding for their research, but are able to conduct groundbreaking work with access to NVIDIA products, technology and some of the most talented minds in the field. In addition, the Fellowship includes a summer internship preceding the Fellowship year.

This fellowship invites applications annually.

As part of one of the world's most innovative and recognizable brands, we are committed to support university research and innovation in the U.S., Canada, India, and select European countries, while also fostering partnerships with university faculty and researchers. The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. With awards up to $150,000 USD* per year for each accepted proposal, both the Faculty Innovation Award and Focused Research Award create new opportunities for university faculties and research institutions to engage in pioneering research that could drive new technologies, industries and the future.

More information and research focus areas available here.

The Global Grants for Gut Health aim to support scientific research into the human gut microbiota. The programme will fund research that develops new insights, data and methodologies with the ultimate goal of advancing the understanding of the impact of the gut microbiota on human health. 

In 2023, the Global Grants for Gut Health invites proposals for research projects that explore the relationship between the human gut microbiome and post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (long COVID). Applications now closed.

The 2024 application has not yet opened.

The AXA Chair is a highly selective funding scheme for senior researchers intended to support significant advancements in the development of a research area within a host institution that is in line with its long-term strategy. It aims at creating a full-time academic position in the host institution and fostering a step change in the career of the appointed AXA Professor.

This is a LIMITED opportunity; only one prospective chair holder can be nominated by an institution. The 2024 application cycle has not yet opened.

Through the E2 Energy to Educate grant program, Constellation offers students from sixth grade through college opportunities to address the energy challenges of today and tomorrow. Grant funds support projects designed to enhance students’ understanding of science and technology and inspire them to think differently about energy. Since the program's inception in 2010, nearly $5,500,000 in grant dollars have supported 269,000 students' learning nationwide.

Applications for the 2024 cycle are anticipated to open in August.

The Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors.

The 2024 application has not yet opened.

The Microsoft Research AI & Society fellows program aims to catalyze research collaboration between Microsoft Research and eminent scholars and experts across a range of disciplines core to discussions at the intersection of AI and its impact on society.

Microsoft recognizes the value of bridging academic, industry, policy, and regulatory worlds and seeks to ignite interdisciplinary collaboration that drives real-world impact.

Through a global, open call for proposals targeting a specific set of research challenges, Microsoft will facilitate strategic collaborations, catalyze new research ideas, and contribute publicly available works to benefit scholarly discourse and benefit society more broadly.

Sanofi is committed to collaborating with partners to advance cutting-edge discoveries. The Sanofi Innovations in Data Exploration and Analytics (iDEA) Awards program, launched in 2018, provides seed funding to innovators at research centers and early start-ups across North America to transform breakthrough digital, data science tools and new technologies into solutions that accelerate the R&D pipeline and improve people’s lives. In 2022, the iDEA awards (NA) and iTECH awards (Europe) merged into the Sanofi global iDEA-TECH awards.

Examples of Partnering Opportunities:

• Predict patient outcomes
• Predict & track disease progression & drug effects
• Maximize drug value in the real world
• Optimize clinical trial design
• Drug target enabling platforms
• Biomarker Identification
• Test new digital/AI solutions
• High throughput screening approaches
• Analytic tools to understand drug mechanism or product quality

The 2024 application is expected to open in November.

Up to $50,000 in direct costs will be provided to ESI Seed Grant recipients for one year for research in areas related to AR within the ARLG scope. Individuals who are MD, PhD, or Pharm D students, graduate or post-graduate trainees, or those with a faculty appointment of less than five years are eligible to apply. Applicants who work at a US domestic institution for the duration of the award irrespective of citizenship or visa status are eligible to apply. The clinical research project may be conducted in the US or internationally.

The purpose of the Agilent Early Career Professor Award is:

• To promote and encourage research excellence on topics of importance to Agilent and the world
• To establish strong collaborative relationships with emerging academic leaders early in their career
• To build the prominence of Agilent as a sponsor of university research

Award Eligibility:

• Professor must hold a tenure-tracked faculty position
• Must have completed Ph.D. or M.D. residency within 12 years of award year

Selection Criteria:

• Alignment with the Focus Topic: Contributions to environmental sustainability through development of green analytical technologies, methods, or laboratory working environments.
• Significant original research contributions enabling solutions of importance to Agilent and the world
  (ref: sustainable lab solutions; my green lab)
• Innovation and outstanding potential for future research contributions

The For Women in Science program was created out of a simple belief: the world needs science, and science needs women because women in science have the power to change the world.

The program is the U.S. component of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Fellowships program. Celebrating its twentieth year in the U.S., the For Women in Science program has awarded 100 postdoctoral women scientists over $5 million in grants.

L’Oréal USA partners with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to manage the program’s application and peer-review process. Each year, the program attracts talented applicants from diverse STEM fields, representing some of the nation’s leading academic institutions and laboratories.

The Motorola Solutions Foundation, which has donated donated more than $100 million in the last 10 years, aims to partner with organizations that are creating safer cities and thriving communities, and prioritizes underrepresented and/or underserved populations, including people of color and women, within the three focus areas below:

• Technology and engineering education
• First responder programming
• Blended first responder programming and technology/engineering education programs

Overarching Priorities:

• Reach people of color, women and other underrepresented and/or underserved populations within our focus areas below
• Leverage robust partnerships with other nonprofit organizations and institutions
• Support organizations that exhibit strong financial health
• Support organizations with data-driven evaluation methods, including quantifiable metrics

Ono Pharma Foundation announces the start of the eighth year of the annual Breakthrough Science Initiative Awards Program (Ono Initiative) in the United States and Canada. Proposals from Principal Investigators will be considered for high-risk and high-reward science research projects which have the potential to lead to science discoveries/solutions and, based on further research, to breakthrough treatments for patients. Applications will be considered from Principal Investigators nominated by 66 Universities and Research Institutes in the Chemical Biology field for laboratory investigation to be carried out in the United States and Canada.

Target research of Chemical Biology is not specified by the Ono Initiative. For 2024, subjects of interest include but are not limited to:

• Modulating interactome and cell/tissue crosstalk with chemical induced proximity
• Manipulating biomolecular condensates and protein quality control systems
• Deep understanding and emerging applications of chemical glycobiology
• New concepts of drug delivery and localization to tissue/cell/organelle

OpenAI is launching a $10M grants program to support technical research towards ensuring superhuman AI systems are aligned and safe:

"We are offering $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers. For graduate students, we are sponsoring a one-year $150K OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship: $75K in stipend and $75K in compute and research funding. No prior experience working on alignment is required; we are actively looking to support researchers who are excited to work on alignment for the first time."

With these grants, we are particularly interested in funding the following research directions:

• Weak-to-strong generalization: Humans will be weak supervisors relative to superhuman models. Can we understand and control how strong models generalize from weak supervision? 
• Interpretability: How can we understand model internals? And can we use this to e.g. build an AI lie detector?
• Scalable oversight: How can we use AI systems to assist humans in evaluating the outputs of other AI systems on complex tasks?
• Many other research directions, including but not limited to: honesty, chain-of-thought faithfulness, adversarial robustness, evals and testbeds, and more.

UL Research Institutes (ULRI) Discoveries in Safety Grants Program funds research that aligns with our mission of building a safer and more sustainable world. Through an open and competitive process, ULRI funds scientific discovery across focus areas that align with our institutes and offices and address our three grand challenges: (1) Building resilience for a sustainable future, (2) Advancing individual and societal health in the 21st century, and (3) Promoting safety at the human-digital interface.

This RFP includes six distinct grants opportunities:

• Eco-Remediation and Energy Storage

• Emerging Chemical Threats to Human and Environmental Health

• Increased Safety for Large-Scale Lithium-Ion Battery Systems

• Independent Digital Risk Assessment

• Innovative Research Leading to the Reduction of Thermal and Chemical Fire Exposures to Firefighters

• Persistence and Effectiveness in Safety and Sustainability Science Education

AWS is soliciting funding proposals related to foundation model (FM) development, including enhancements for dialogue, factual questioning and answering, text generation, document summarization, image generation, and more. Proposals should be expanding the state of the art in terms of training methods, with a focus on one of the following areas: 1) to reduce incorrect or nonsensical answers, 2) to reduce the sensitivity to tweaks to the input prompt, 3) ask clarifying questions when facing ambiguous questions, 4) develop efficiency enhancements across the training and hosting FM lifecycle.

We are inviting work that both critiques and enhances the state-of-the-art in FM, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Reinforcement learning with human feedback
• Scaling laws and their inverse, including for model fine-tuning
• Novel datasets and training methods
• Distillation with enhanced reasoning
• Foundation models in novel modalities and domains, such as biology, manufacturing, fashion, etc.
• Bias detection and mitigation throughout the foundation model lifecycle

Innovative strategies to help improve steps in the PrEP continuum, including awareness, uptake, and persistence, and expansion of PrEP services to novel, non-traditional settings and by non-traditional providers are needed to achieve the CDC’s and UNAIDS 2025 HIV prevention targets.

Through the NOVA 2024 RFP process, Gilead will evaluate and potentially support research proposals that address areas of interest where data gaps exist and seek to answer open research questions. More information is available in the complete RFP.

Google, in collaboration with the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, will support selected colleges, universities, and community colleges with up to $1M each to increase access and opportunities for students interested in pursuing careers in cybersecurity. In addition, recipients can access the Google Cybersecurity Certificate, Google Titan security keys, and student mentorship opportunities from Google.

This fund will grow and support existing members of the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, while searching for new higher education institutions to help students build a career in cybersecurity. We want to support these institutions in building a workforce with the real-world experience needed to protect critical U.S. infrastructure - in hospitals, nonprofits, schools and utilities - from cyber attacks.

This year ServiceNow.org will be awarding four grants – up to $2 million in total value – to individual nonprofits that use technology in impactful ways to enable greater efficiencies and better serve their communities. Apply for a chance to collaborate with our partners – Accenture, EY, KPMG, and NewRocket – to solve the world's greatest challenges.

• Hunger and Poverty Alleviation grant in collaboration with Accenture,
• Humanitarian and Crisis Relief grant in collaboration with EY,
• Education and Youth Services grant in collaboration with KPMG, and
• Cause and Cure grant in collaboration with NewRocket.

See this document for additional information.

The Foundation was created in 2008 by The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer. The purpose of the Foundation is to support patient safety education for healthcare professionals in training and in practice, and patient safety research with clinically useful applications. With this in mind, we focus on innovative projects/activities that develop knowledge, techniques, and tools whose application reduces or eliminates risk of adverse events that cause harm to patients while under care.

The Foundation views innovation as the creation, development, and implementation of a new or significantly improved process, activity, or model, with the aim of measurably improving patient outcomes.

At Genentech, we prioritize health equity in everything we do – from clinical study design to our access/policy priorities to our philanthropic investments. That’s why, in 2019, we launched the Genentech Health Equity Innovation Fund to catalyze efforts to eliminate inequities in patient health outcomes. Through the 2024 Innovation Fund, we are seeking to fund teams focused on measurably and sustainably closing racial/ethnic inequities in healthcare to create a future where: 

• All patients – especially those marginalized by our healthcare system – define and attain their highest levels of health supported by a system that is accountable for delivering high-quality competent care.
• The medical/scientific workforce is diverse, inclusive, thriving and accountable to all patients.

View the complete RFP here.

In support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, this year’s cohort will aim to find ways to foster urban resiliency in the long-term.

Project examples include:

• AI foundation models and geospatial analytics to discover new insights
• Asset management for public services
• Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for operational and situational awareness
• Open source software to manage electric vehicle ecosystems
• Weather and climate forecasting to predict impacts on natural and built infrastructure

Sanofi is committed to collaborating with partners to advance cutting-edge discoveries into transformative medicines that improve patient lives. The Sanofi Innovation Awards (iAwards) program, created in 2015, was designed to do just that. More than 28 top academic and medical centers in North America participate in this program to advance innovations in target identification and translational science into first-in-class therapeutic solutions.

Principal investigators from academic partner institutions developing cutting-edge therapeutic solutions in the following areas:

• Immuno- and molecular-oncology
• Immunology and inflammatory diseases 
• Rare and neurological diseases 
• Genomic medicine 
• Precision medicine 
• New therapeutic modalities

Independent Research Grants empower the global research community to develop new treatments and technological advancements in ocular health. Research grants have been funded by Bausch + Lomb to improve consumer standards of care, efficacy, patient satisfaction, safety and vision performance.

The list below is current top of mind items that Cisco Research is currently accepting research proposals on. The company continues to update their research foci; the current list may be found at https://research.cisco.com/open-rfps

• Generative AI
• Web Assembly
• Web3.0: De-Centralized Computing, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency/Virtual Currency
• Sustainability
• Augmented & Virtual Reality
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Low Orbit Satellite Networking and Infrastructure
• Cybersecurity in Emerging Tech Areas
• Contactless Supply Chain
• Quantum Information
• Edge Computing
• Ethics in AI
• Intent-Based Networking for the Enterprise
• Insider Threat
• Semiconductor Reliability
• Threat Mitigation
• Caching, Routing, Security
• 3D IC Integration and Enabling Technologies
• Conference Sponsorships
• Hackathon Sponsorships

The Comcast Innovation Fund was created to support technology and public policy research that contributes to the betterment of the Internet, and the continued evolution of connectivity products and services. The fund provides grants to technologists, researchers, and academics to support Internet- and connectivity-focused projects within the fund’s areas of interest, which are updated annually.

General Research Grants provide unrestricted award of funds to support researchers, usually at colleges and universities. These grants are focused on supporting excellent technical research in a wide variety of fields that are relevant to the evolution of the Internet. Targeted Research Grants are more narrowly tailored and typically study more specific issues. Applicants for these grants often come from organizations, academic institutions, and occasionally individuals.

See 2024 priority areas here.

Through the General Grant Program, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation funds research initiatives and scalable educational projects with unique demonstration value to ensure that people in the United States and U.S. territories have the knowledge, skills and tools to make sound financial decisions throughout life.
 
The Foundation welcomes applications for research or educational projects of approximately $50,000–$100,000 that address financial inequities, especially within communities that experience systemic barriers to financial inclusion.

Gilead provides ISR grants primarily in our therapeutic areas of expertise and based on the scientific merit of the proposal. The research must be intended to contribute knowledge to the medical community. The budget must be reasonable and appropriate for the proposed work. In considering applications for support, Gilead will also consider the expertise of the proposed principal investigator and any sub-investigators, including their experience in the relevant therapeutic area, demonstrated ability to successfully conduct clinical trials, and available resources.

The Kite External Research Program provides support for collaborative and investigator sponsored research in areas of interest to Kite that advance medical and scientific knowledge in cell therapy. External research results are expected to be communicated in appropriate scientific forums, including peer-reviewed publications.

As part of Kite's support of investigator sponsored research, Kite accepts unsolicited clinical and non-clinical study proposals that are developed, designed and conducted by external investigators. Kite supports investigator-sponsored research focused on scientifically rigorous exploration of our therapies which aims to advance science, clinical medicine and patient care.

The Kite External Research Program is currently limited to study proposals about our CAR T cell therapies (axicabtagene ciloleucel and brexucabtagene autoleucel) that address one of the areas listed below, including novel combinations, novel approaches to safety or efficacy, novel conditioning regimens, translational research and real-world data.

• Optimal sequential treatment and bridging therapy approaches for CAR T-cell therapy
• Uses in different settings of care and/or novel approaches to patient care including safety and patient selection
• Proposals for frontline CAR T in LBCL
• Identification of high risk patients categorized by biomarkers / clinical data sets
• Evidence to identify the patients most likely to achieve long term remission from brexucabtagene autoleucel without any further consolidation treatment

Fellowships play an important role in ensuring that fellows are trained in the latest medical procedures and technologies.

Applications for awards are submitted by teaching institutions, community hospitals, medical societies, and associations that have a bona fide fellowship program and selection process to determine fellowship recipients. Fellowships are not contingent upon the use, purchase, recommendation of Medline’s products. The fellowship application deadline is March 31st of each year. Applications will not be reviewed by the Committee until after this date and grants will be awarded for fellowships once per year.

Financial and product support is available for educational programs and activities that promote health care provider education, enhance the quality of patient care, and align with Medline’s therapeutic and clinical interests.

Education proposals that may be considered for financial support include accredited education activities, independent education activities, web-ex programs, publication/monograph development, national/regional scientific and medical congresses and symposia, and patient/caregiver education relating to medical or public health information/needs. Grant recipients maintain independence with respect to the content development and delivery of the funded program or activity. Application deadlines are March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year. All requests received during an application period are reviewed competitively and awarded after the deadline. Please keep these deadlines in mind to ensure your application will be reviewed before the event date.

The IIS Program provides support for research that advances scientific and medical knowledge about Medline products and generates promising approaches to medical care. Our support of projects can include direct funding to cover all or a portion of study-related costs, product and study design input. Proposals are competitively reviewed; acceptance is based on scientific, medical and health economic merit and alignment with Medline’s strategic business interests. Application deadlines are March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year. All requests received during the application period will be reviewed after the deadline. If the Scientific Review Committee approves an application, execution of an agreement is required for disbursement of funds, which includes milestones and publishing expectations.

Driven by Nasdaq’s Purpose to advance economic progress for all, the Nasdaq Foundation works with organizations that promote & support under-resourced communities by reimagining investor engagement and equipping communities with the financial knowledge needed to share in the wealth that markets create. The Quarterly Grant Program allows us to move nimbly to fund & help scale programs that align with the Foundation's mission.

FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE & CONFIDENCE
Empower organization that equip diverse investors with the financial knowledge and confidence they need to share in the wealth that markets can create. Grants will be given in this area to organizations and programs which deliver impact in one or more of the following ways:

• Enhancing financial literacy among women and under-represented communities
• Improving access to knowledge and tools among women and under-represented communities

STRENGTHEN & SCALE
Support entrepreneurs who promote diversity with the resources to strengthen and scale those businesses and contribute to the prosperity of society. Grants will be given in this area to organizations and programs which deliver impact in one or more of the following ways:

• Equipping women and diverse founders with mentoring and resources
• Improving access to capital for women and diverse founders

BUILD & CONTRIBUTE
The Foundation will collaborate with organizations that can help build a deeper, data-led understanding where the challenges are greatest, what existing efforts could be amplified, and how the Foundation can make new and distinctive contributions in its mission to diversify entrepreneurship and empower investors.

"The Westinghouse Charitable Giving Program enables our company to provide financial support to communities in one or more of our strategic areas of giving.

• Education with a focus on STEM
  • Grants defined as education with a focus on STEM are those used to improve knowledge and literacy with a focus in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math among students, teachers and the general public.
• Environmental Sustainability
  • Grants defined as Environmental Sustainability are those used to enrich programs with the goal of preserving or restoring land, air, water or biodiversity. A comfortable standard of living is important to Westinghouse in order to ensure technology advancement and a sustainable planet for future generations.
• Community Safety and Vitality
  • Donations defined as Community Safety and Vitality are those used to improve the overall quality of life within a community by supporting initiatives that enhance safety and public well-being. Safety, health and wellness are vitally important to Westinghouse; our community commitment does not start and stop at the workplace door, but safety, health and wellness continue at home and in our community."