The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center launched the Accelerating Research through Collaboration (ARC) Awards to accelerate the research of pressing life science questions through collaboration and to attract and train scientists in the Commonwealth.
Donor Name: Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 11/21/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
These public-private partnerships are collaborations between not-for-profit applicants and at least one for-profit Massachusetts life science company.
There are 3 tracks for the ARC Awards:
- Bits to Bytes
- As the leading life sciences ecosystem, Massachusetts recognizes that the role of data sciences in life science innovation has rapidly evolved and has the potential to catalyze that innovation at unprecedented rates. Investment in generating well-annotated datasets and training data scientists for life science research is required to sustain Massachusetts’s global leadership position in life science research and development.
- Novel Therapeutics Delivery
- The Novel Therapeutics Delivery track fosters the development of novel technologies and techniques for the delivery of existing or innovative therapies by working at the intersection of engineering, biology, chemistry, and medicine. Specifically, it strives to capitalize and incentivize translational projects to address complex challenges in “therapeutic” delivery – from biomanufacturing, to targeted delivery, to biomaterials, medical devices and more.
- Women’s Health
- This track supports collaborative projects that aim to improve the discovery, technical innovation, and/or analysis of datasets to answer pressing life science questions around women’s health. It incentivizes translational projects that develop novel solutions to treat conditions that solely or disproportionately affect women or have a different presentation between genders.
Funding Information
These awards provide approximately $750,000 to cover direct costs and require the hiring of a postdoctoral scientist.
For more information, visit Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.
