Commercialization Initiation Program
Limited submission
The Commercialization Initiation Program by M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust funds advanced science, medicine, or engineering projects ready to move from research to market in the Pacific Northwest.
Funder: M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Due Dates: June 1, 2027 (Commercialization Initiation Program)
Funding Amounts: Typical award: $100,000–$300,000 over 1–2 years; one award per eligible institution per cycle.
Summary: Supports high-priority research commercialization projects at major research universities and biomedical institutes in the Pacific Northwest, accelerating discoveries from lab to market.
Key Information: Only one proposal per institution per cycle; projects must be at a commercialization inflection point, not for generating preliminary data.
Description
The Commercialization Initiation Program, offered by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, is designed to help major research universities and biomedical research institutes in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington bring significant scientific discoveries to market. Launched in 2015 and expanded in 2020, this program targets projects in the natural sciences, medicine, and engineering that are at a critical commercialization inflection point—meaning the project is ready to move toward market application, not simply generating data for future academic research.
The program seeks to fund the single highest-priority commercialization project from each eligible institution per cycle, focusing on those that represent a pivotal step toward market readiness. Basic research and projects aimed solely at generating preliminary data for future grants are not eligible.
