Hill Prizes
Awards Texas researchers and innovators $500,000 in non-dilutive funding for their work.
Hill Prizes is a Lyda Hill Philanthropies award that pays Texas researchers and innovators $500,000 in non-dilutive funding across seven categories -- artificial intelligence, biological sciences, commercialization/innovation/technology, engineering, medicine, physical sciences and public health -- open to applicants who held their first independent faculty, government or professional position in …
The Hill Prizes back high-risk, high-reward research and commercialization work by Texas-based researchers, entrepreneurs and companies across seven categories: artificial intelligence, biological sciences, commercialization/innovation/technology, engineering, medicine, physical sciences and public health. Applicants must have held their first independent faculty, government or professional position in 2011 or earlier and have spent the past two years researching in Texas.
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