MIT HEALS Seed Grant Call for Applications
ForecastedInternal — Massachusetts Institute of Technology only
MIT HEALS Seed Grant Call for Applications supports MIT research teams pursuing cross-disciplinary health and life sciences projects to advance transformative ideas and build foundations for longer-term support.
Funder: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Due Dates (Anticipated): June 2027 (Letters of intent) | June 2027 (Applications)
Funding Amounts: Innovator: approximately $100,000 per lab for one year; Breakthrough: approximately $100,000–$200,000 per year per lab for two years (inclusive of indirect costs)
Summary: MIT HEALS supports collaborative, cross-disciplinary research that advances transformative ideas in health and life sciences.
Key Information: Each research team must be led by MIT-affiliated faculty or a PI; funds cannot go to non-MIT collaborators.
Description
The MIT HEALS Seed Grant program, administered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through MIT HEALS, supports collaborative projects at the cutting edge of health and life sciences. It seeks to catalyze new interactions, develop technologies and methodologies, generate core datasets, and accelerate discovery.
The program prioritizes bold, cross-disciplinary work that integrates diverse approaches and pursues paradigm-shifting ideas rather than incremental advances. New partnerships and potentially risky research directions that may not fit traditional funding mechanisms are particularly welcome. Innovator Grants seed collaborations and proof-of-concept work, while Breakthrough Grants support established and emerging ideas poised to transform the field. Both categories aim to generate preliminary findings for long-term external support and require substantive interaction among research groups rather than independent, parallel laboratory projects.
