Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant — Round 13
Funds Stanford faculty collaborations exploring high-risk interdisciplinary bioscience with translational intent.
The Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program (IIP) Seed Grant funds high-risk, high-reward collaborative research in bioengineering, biosciences, and biomedicine that is too speculative for conventional federal funding at its early stage. Awards provide up to $200,000 per project over two years, with a total pool of approximately $4 million deployed every two years. The programme opera…
Early-stage, high-risk collaborative research in bioengineering, biosciences, and biomedicine requiring cross-departmental Stanford faculty teams.
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