Mid-South REACH Hub

中南 REACH 中心

• 批准号: 10783638
• 负责人: Charleson Sherard Bell
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-25 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10783638
• 关键词: Acceleration; Active Learning; Area; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; Biomedical Technology; Decision Making; Disparate; Disparity; Ecosystem; Education; Ensure; Entrepreneurship; Equity; Financial Support; Fostering; Friction; Funding; Future; Geography; Goals; Grant; Health; High Prevalence; Human; Individual; Industry; Inequity; Institution; Investments; Leadership; Letters; Maps; Marketing; Medical; Medical Research; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority-Serving Institution; Mississippi; Modeling; Motivation; Occupations; Patients; Process; Research; Resources; Risk; Secure; State Government; Structure; Technology; Technology Transfer; Time; Translating; Translations; Underrepresented Populations; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Virginia; Vision; Work; community college; economic impact; empowerment; experience; flexibility; health economics; improved; industry partner; innovation; knowledge base; member; novel; outreach; programs; recruit; role model; socioeconomic disparity; stem

ABSTRACT The overarching goal of this proposal is to create a four-state Mid-South REACH Hub to accelerate real-world impact of biomedical innovations through education, mentorship, and financial support for aspiring entrepreneurs. This Hub is critically needed, as much of the region is not supported by any REACH Hub, and our consortium dramatically extends REACH, both geographically and demographically, to a network of hundreds of community colleges and minority-serving institutions who currently encounter disproportionate challenges in accessing federal support for innovation and entrepreneurship. The significance of this endeavor is twofold: we will turn many more academic discoveries into real-world products that save lives and improve human health, and we will catalyze a medical innovation economy in states that have a robust innovation pipeline but limited resources to translate these discoveries into a knowledge- based biomedical technology industry. Leveraging more than $2M per year in committed state and institutional matching funds, Mid-South REACH will exponentially expand the impact of the REACH program. Innovation in our Hub comes from a radically democratic approach to ensure equitable decision making, the ability to reach a large network of underrepresented/underserved institutions across four states, and the new flexible, scalable, and sustainable Hub model we propose in which many states and universities contribute matching funds that are then used to fund innovators within their own constituencies. This model makes it easy to add new partners; each can be confident that their money will stay in their local area, enhancing sustainability. Our approach is to extend excellent education, proactive mentoring, and financial support throughout a diverse coalition of states and universities across the Mid-South, combining Vanderbilt’s expertise in entrepreneurial education with the collective experience of our partner institutions in supporting biomedical innovation. Our Hub will be led by a diverse and experienced Multi-PI leadership team with PIs in each state who bring unique perspectives, extensive networks, and outstanding experience in innovation, entrepreneurship, and medical research to the team. Together, we will recruit an exceptional and diverse External Review Board, with funding decisions made democratically by the board and the PIs. We will experientially educate our teams via proactive mentoring that begins from the earliest moment of the pre-proposal stage and continues throughout their projects, encouraging them to focus on product-market fit and to “fail fast” by identifying and working toward the critical six-month technical and educational milestones that would justify subsequent funding tranches. Ultimately, the payoff of this process in terms of startups founded, job creation, and economic impact will motivate institutions and state governments to continue providing funding and in-kind administrative support, making the Mid South Hub self-sustaining and multiply NIH’s initial seed investment manyfold into the future.

摘要 这项提议的总体目标是创建一个由四个州组成的中南区枢纽，以加速现实世界 生物医学创新通过教育、指导和财政支持对有抱负的人的影响 企业家。由于该地区的大部分地区不受任何REACH集线器的支持，因此非常需要该集线器 我们的财团在地理上和人口上都极大地扩展了覆盖范围，覆盖了 数百所社区学院和为少数族裔服务的机构目前遇到了不成比例的 在获得联邦政府对创新和创业的支持方面的挑战。 这一努力的意义是双重的：我们将把更多的学术发现转化为现实世界 拯救生命和改善人类健康的产品，我们将在各州催化医疗创新经济 拥有强大的创新管道，但将这些发现转化为知识的资源有限- 以生物医药技术产业为基础。在承诺的状态下，每年利用200多万美元 机构配套资金，中南REACH将成倍扩大REACH计划的影响。 我们中心的创新来自于确保公平决策的激进民主方法， 能够接触到四个州任职人数不足/服务不足的机构组成的大型网络，以及新的 我们提出了灵活、可扩展和可持续的中心模式，多个州和大学参与其中 匹配资金，然后用于资助自己选区内的创新者。这种模式让它变得很容易 增加新的合作伙伴；每个人都可以相信，他们的资金将留在当地，增强可持续性。 我们的方法是将优质的教育、积极的指导和财务支持扩展到不同的 中南部各州和大学的联盟，结合了范德比尔特在创业方面的专业知识 与我们的伙伴机构在支持生物医学创新方面的集体经验相结合的教育。我们的枢纽 将由一个多样化和经验丰富的多PI领导团队领导，每个州的PI将带来独特的 在创新、创业和医疗方面的视角、广泛的网络和杰出的经验 对团队进行研究。我们将共同招募一个特别和多样化的外部审查委员会，并提供资金 董事会和私人投资公司以民主方式作出决定。我们将通过积极主动的方式对我们的团队进行体验式培训 从建议书前阶段的最早时刻开始，一直持续到他们 项目，鼓励他们专注于产品与市场的匹配，并通过确定并努力实现 关键的六个月技术和教育里程碑，将证明随后的资金分批是合理的。 最终，这一过程在创建初创企业、创造就业机会和经济影响方面的回报将激励 各机构和州政府继续提供资金和实物行政支持，使 中南枢纽自给自足，并使NIH的初始种子投资成倍增加到未来。