Harrington Discovery Institute Opens Call for 2025 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award

  Unique program for physician-scientists to advance promising discoveries into medicines

CLEVELAND, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals is now accepting Letters of Intent for the 2025 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award for physician-scientists. The award offers successful applicants multiple opportunities for funding in addition to expertise from pharma-experienced leaders with a track record of bringing drugs to market. Intellectual property rights are retained by the award recipient or their institution. Up to 12 Scholar-Innovators will be selected to receive:

• $100,000 guaranteed grant award;
• Drug and business development support from Harrington's Therapeutics Development Center advisors;
• Opportunity to compete for acceleration funds up to $300,000;
• Opportunity to qualify for investment funds typically up to $2MM.

The call is open to physician-scientists at accredited academic medical centers, research institutions and universities in the United States and Canada. Selection criteria include innovation, creativity and potential for impact on human health. Applicants must have a doctorate in medicine. Award recipients will be selected by Harrington Discovery Institute's Scientific Advisory Board and announced in April 2025.

The deadline to submit a brief Letter of Intent is June 5, 2024. The full application deadline, for those invited to submit, is August 7, 2024.

Learn more and apply to the 2025 Scholar-Innovator Award at:
HarringtonDiscovery.org/Scholar-Innovators

About Harrington Discovery Institute
The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland, OH—part of The Harrington Project for Discovery & Development—aims to advance medicine and society by enabling our nation's most inventive scientists to turn their discoveries into medicines that improve human health. The institute was created in 2012 with a $50 million founding gift from the Harrington family and is a prime example of the commitment they share with University Hospitals to a Vision for a 'Better World'.

SOURCE Harrington Discovery Institute