Services
Our expertise can tailor donor support across a range of mechanisms including:
• Large Program Grants to research directors, institutions, and biomedical research teams.
• Project Grants to established, mid-level, or early-stage investigators.
• Endowed Professorships (named for the Donor, Family Foundation, or Corporation) for high achieving internationally renowned faculty in particular medical disciplines.
• Named Research Fellowships for talented researchers at the early postdoctoral level.
• Named Scholarships for Ph.D. students and/or medical graduates who need research training and are committed to building a career in biomedical research.
• Infrastructure Grants to support the purchase of key pieces of advanced high-cost equipment.
• Coordination (Synergy-Promoting) Grants to facilitate cooperative research between investigators in multiple institutions who may have different, but complementary, approaches to studying a particular disease.
Our commitment to donors includes:
• Working to understand their short, medium, and long-term philanthropic goals.
• Identifying the support mechanism that best reflects their budget and philosophy.
• Determining their risk tolerance (i.e. their preferences for supporting high risk/reward research versus more mainstream research).
• Selecting the best and most worthy potential recipients for funding.
• Soliciting novel research plans from potential recipients and performing due diligence by peer review and other vetting processes.
• Compressing the time between donor decision-making and the provision of funds to recipients.
• Monitoring the research undertaken by recipients and reporting progress to donors.
• Respecting donors’ ethical restrictions on the use of their funds.
• Maintaining confidentiality in accordance with donors’ wishes.