Women and other minority entrepreneurs will benefit from a National Science Foundation grant awarded to Indiana University, University of Louisville, and Missouri University of Science and Technology.
The $225,000 grant is for a pilot program titled AWARE:ACCESS: Building Innovation Capacity through Diversity. The Indiana University grant partners are Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. and Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.
Jennifer Finefield, Ph.D., senior technology manager at IURTC and co-investigator on the grant, said, “We are thrilled to help Midwestern female and minority entrepreneurs become better equipped to compete for federal funding through this regional grant from the NSF.”
Padma Portonovo, Ph.D., IU’s co-principal investigator on the grant and program manager at Indiana CTSI, said, “Startup companies are an important stage of the translational research spectrum, so this initiative is key to the Indiana CTSI’s mission of accelerating research to commercialization, and to increase the representation of women and minorities in this process.”
You can read more about the grant and the AWARE:ACCESS program here.
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