Funder: Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027 (Full proposals, invitation only) | September 2027 (Letter of Inquiry)
Funding Amounts: Up to $150,000 for individual projects or $300,000 for collaborative projects over 12 months; up to two additional years of support based on progress
Summary: Supports innovative research worldwide to advance understanding, prediction, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Key Information: Each proposal must have one Principal Investigator; postdocs cannot apply as Principal Investigators.
Description
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Innovator Awards support researchers worldwide in testing innovative ideas and collaborating to advance understanding of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Through its Health grantmaking, the Foundation funds basic, translational and clinical science that could produce transformative discoveries in predicting, diagnosing, treating and preventing IBD. The program supports both individual research projects and collaborative work that enables researchers to gather and share data.
Collaboration between scientists and clinicians is highly encouraged, including expertise in immunology, microbiology, gastroenterology, molecular biology and computational biology. The Foundation also encourages high-impact basic and translational projects using artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics and model systems to explore IBD mechanisms and accelerate therapeutic discovery. Innovation, scientific merit and investigators’ ability to execute the project guide selection.
