MIT Global Seed Funds: $30M in seed grants, follow-on research gains
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MIT's Global Seed Funds (GSF) have awarded more than $30 million to over 1,300 faculty projects since 2008, according to MIT News. In a Q&A, MIT chemistry professor Matt Shoulders said his first GSF grant, in 2013, led to an NIH Director's New Innovator Award worth more than $2 million, and that GSF funding he received is connected to roughly $18–20 million in outside research support. Shoulders described the grants as turning early international partnerships into larger research programs, seeding work on Rubisco engineering, collagen disease models, and CRISPR-Cas9 evolution in human cells. The figures are MIT's and Shoulders' own account of the program's impact; the Q&A does not establish that the later awards resulted from the seed grants alone.
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- MIT NewsQ&A: How MIT Global Seed Funds turn seed grants into scientific breakthroughs
MIT chemistry professor Matt Shoulders describes how Global Seed Funds grants, which have awarded over $30 million to more than 1,300 faculty projects since 2008, turned early international partnerships into major research programs. His first 2013 grant led to an NIH Director's New Innovator Award worth more than $2 million, and GSF funding he received connects to roughly $18 to $20 million in outside research support. The collaborations seeded work on Rubisco engineering, collagen disease models, and CRISPR-Cas9 evolution in human cells.
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