Funding Details
Program goal
Help early- and mid-career researchers start projects and gather data needed to apply for larger government or private grants.
Grants are made to
- Primarily support research projects for cancer, heart disease, and incurable diseases.
- Research Leprosy (Next Request for Proposals for the Heiser Program for Leprosy Research to be issued in late 2024.)
Organizations that raise and re-grant biomedical research funds are ineligible for grants.
Recent grants
| Organization | Summary |
|---|---|
Trustees of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons |
for Dr. Barry Fine’s research to study a new compound that may preserve heart muscle during a heart attack. |
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
for Dr. George Heaton’s research to study how mutations within a gene cause or influence the progression of Parkinson’s disease. |
Hospital for Special Surgery |
for Dr. David Fernandez’s research to study the effects of mutated immune cells on the progression of inclusion body myositis, a rheumatic disease. |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
for Dr. Daniel Weiser’s research to improve the use of blood samples to detect pediatric solid tumor cancers. |
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