Funding Opportunities

 

2009 IBNAM-Baxter Research Incubator Program

Application Deadline May 1, 2009

The IBNAM-Baxter Research Incubator Program provides funding to seed innovative interdisciplinary research projects in bionanomedicine. The program allows Northwestern University (NU) faculty members to launch exploratory and high-risk research that promises to lead to external funding.


Eligibility: Any NU tenured, tenure-track, or clinical faculty member with the skills and knowledge necessary to serve as the Principal Investigator (PI) may submit an application with one or more NU faculty co-PIs. Inter-campus applications bringing together medical research faculty with engineering and/or basic science faculty are encouraged. IBNAM is particularly interested in projects that will utilize the Institute’s facilities in the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center. Incubator projects that are integrated with IBNAM-Baxter Early Career proposals are allowed.

Baxter Incubator Call for Applications

Baxter Incubator Application Forms

2009 IBNAM-Baxter Early Career Development Award in Bioengineering

Application Deadline May 1, 2009

The IBNAM-Baxter Early Career Award Program supports young researchers in the field of bioengineering who work on interdisciplinary research dedicated to accelerating medical discovery and breeding scientific collaboration in clinical medicine, engineering, physical sciences, and life sciences.

 

Eligibility: Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States who have received their doctoral degree no more than two years prior to their fellowship start date; however, new doctoral recipients are preferred. Qualifications include demonstrated ability to pursue research in areas such as targeted therapy delivery through nanotechnology; novel therapies, early detection methods, and medical devices; stem cell based therapies; and biomaterials for tissue regeneration. One or more Northwestern University faculty members must sponsor each applicant, and candidates already at Northwestern are welcome to apply. IBNAM is particularly interested in projects that will utilize the Institute’s facilities in the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center. Early Career proposals that are integrated with IBNAM-Baxter Incubator projects are allowed.

Baxter Early Career Call for Applications

Baxter Early Career Application Forms

 

Terms governing reporting, intellectual property, publications, and confidentiality for the IBNAM-Baxter programs will be provided on request.

 

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