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Program Overview
The MLSC is particularly seeking to enhance and/or expand training programs that address critical skills and talent supply gaps facing the sate’s life science industry. Such programs include those focused on Biomanufacturing, MedTech, Advanced Manufacturing, and other key careers in the life sciences ecosystem in Massachusetts. Applicants must have at-least one industry partnership that ensures that the program is responding to a direct hiring need.
Furthermore, the MLSC is committed to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion within the life sciences workforce and will prioritize investments in programs that serve underrepresented populations.
Program Eligibility
Applicants must be a Massachusetts legally organized:
- Life Science company (“Company”) located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- and regisered to do business in Massachusetts. A Certifcate of Good Standing from
- the Massachusetts Secretary of State and Certifcate of Good Standing from the
- Massachusetts Department of Revenue are required for the submission
- Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), including CBOs relying on a fscal agent
- Community Colleges, Colleges, and Universities
- Comprehensive and Vocational High Schools, including Vocational Schools ofering an
- after-hours or Career Technical Initiative evening training program
- For-Profit Entities
- Non-Profit Entities
- Municipalities
- Workforce Development Organizations
- MassHire Workforce Investment Boards and Career Centers
Please review detailed program eligibility and application evaluation process here: Eligibility and Evaluation Process
If you have any questions regarding the application process, Email: Pathmaker@masslifesciences.com
Program Overview
The MLSC launched Bits to Bytes to provide 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.
As the leading life sciences ecosystem, Massachusetts recognizes that the role of data sciences in life science innovation has rapidly evolved and has the potential to catalyze that innovation at unprecedented rates. Investment in generating well-annotated datasets and training data scientists for life science research is required to sustain Massachusetts’s global leadership position in life science research and development.
We anticipate the application period will run from Sept. 23 – Dec. 6, 2024 at 1 p.m. EST.
Please view the the full list of eligibility requirements and evaluation process.
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If you have any questions regarding the application process, e-mail: BitsToBytes@Masslifesciences.com
Program Overview
The First Look Awards are part of the MLSC’s Women’s Health Initiative. This program is a collaboration between the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) and the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School. The goal of this grant program is 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. The First Look Awards align with the Connors Center First.In.Women Precision Medicine Platform, which advances the inclusion and specific investigation of women in the development and utilization of new drugs, devices and digital therapeutics in order to produce sex-specific and sex-differentiating knowledge about newly developed treatments.
Up to $250,000 is available for the program, and we anticipate making five awards of up to $50,000 to Massachusetts-based women’s health researchers.
The application period will run from Sept. 23 – Dec. 6, 2024 at 1 p.m. EST.
Please view the details of the program including full list of eligibility requirements, resources available and evaluation process
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If you have questions regarding the application process, e-mail WomensHealth@masslifesciences.com with “First Look” in the subject line.
Health Equity Accelerator
Program Overview
The MLSC’s Health Equity Accelerator program is designed to advance 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. The program invites applications from both non-profit and for-profit organizations based in Massachusetts to develop transformative solutions in targeted areas under the health equity lens.
Up to $250,000 is available for the program and we anticipate making five awards of approximately $50,000 each to support Massachusetts-based organizations developing innovative health equity solutions.
Please view the details of the program including full list of eligibility requirements, resources available and evaluation process
The application deadline is December 6th, 2024, EST.
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If you have questions regarding the application process, e-mail: HealthEquity@masslifesciences.com.
Program Overview
The Novel Therapeutics Delivery program fosters the development of novel technologies and techniques for the delivery of existing or innovative therapies by working at the intersection of engineering, biology, chemistry, and medicine. Specifically, it strives to capitalize and incentivize translational projects to address complex challenges in “therapeutic” delivery – from biomanufacturing, to targeted delivery, to biomaterials and more.
Up to $5 million capital dollars are available for the current program round, with each award anticipated to be up to $750,000 to support equipment and other capital expenses at not-for-profit partners.
The application period will run from Sept. 23 – Dec. 6, 2024 at 1 p.m. EST.
Please view the full list of eligibility requirements and evaluation process.
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If you have any questions regarding the application process, e-mail: DrugDelivery@Masslifesciences.com.
Program Overview
The design of the Research Infrastructure program (formerly known as the Open or Competitive Capital Program) is to provide grants for capital projects that support the life sciences ecosystem in Massachusetts by enabling and supporting life sciences research and development in the Commonwealth.
Up to $10 million in capital dollars is available to support capital projects ranging from $1.5 – $5 million across the state for not-for-profit partners. Applicants will have to demonstrate how the requested infrastructure will benefit the entire life sciences ecosystem in Massachusetts.
The application period will run from Sept. 23 – Dec. 6, 2024 at 1 p.m. EST.
Please view the full list of eligibility requirements and evaluation process.
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If you have any questions regarding the application process, e-mail: ResearchInfrastructure@masslifesciences.com.
Program Overview
The Women’s Health Collaboration Program is part of the MLSC’s Women’s Health Initiative. This program supports collaborative projects that aim to improve the discovery, technical innovation, and/or analysis of datasets to answer pressing life science questions around women’s health. It incentivizes translational projects that develop novel solutions to treat conditions that solely or disproportionately affect women or have a different presentation between genders.
Up to $5 million capital dollars are available for the current program round. Each award anticipated to be approximately $750,000 to support data generation and equipment at not-for-profit partners
The application period will run from Aug. 5 – Nov. 15, 2024 at 1 p.m. EST.
Please view the details of the program including full list of eligibility requirements, resources available and evaluation process
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If you have questions regarding the application process, e-mail WomensHealth@masslifesciences.com.
Program Overview
The Women’s Health Innovation Grants are part of the MLSC’s Women’s Health Initiative. The grants focus 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. Projects could include hiring a postdoc to perform research, working with a CRO, entering into a sponsored research agreement, etc.
Individual grants of up to $300,000. Awards made to Massachusetts-based women’s health researchers. Up to $3 million is available for the whole program
Please view the details of the program including full list of eligibility requirements, resources available and evaluation process
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If you have questions regarding the application process, e-mail WomensHealth@masslifesciences.com with Innovation Grant in the subject line.