Q-FASTR Pilot Award
Supports Harvard investigators with early funding for biomedical trials and validation.
The Q-FASTR Pilot Award is administered by Q-FASTR (Quadrangle Fund for Advancing and Seeding Translational Research), an initiative within Harvard Medical School's Innovation Hub (I-Hub) under the Office of the Dean. Q-FASTR was established in 2014 through an initial philanthropic gift from Phill Gross, subsequently matched by grants from the Warren Alpert Foundation and Barbara and Louis Perlmut…
Early-stage therapeutics: protein therapeutics, small molecules, gene therapies, oligonucleotides, cell therapies, computational approaches, screening technologies, diagnostics.
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