Funding for Translational Research

The University of Louisville offers many funding opportunities to help its researchers bridge the gap between lab and marketplace. This includes a suite of prestigious grant-backed translational programs, which we've dubbed the "superfecta." 

These programs are: 

• AWARE:ACCESS, aimed at women and underrepresented entrepreneurs;
• Coulter Translational Research Partnership grants, to address unmet clinical needs by collaboration of engineers and clinicians;
• ExCITE, aimed at healthcare-related products to improve patient care;
• Innovation Corps (I-Corps.), which partners researchers with entrepreneurial mentors.
• KYNETIC

UofL is one of only a handful of universities in the country to receive each of these innovation-associated awards to support the translation of research into viable commercial products.

And we’re the only one to receive all of them.

The programs provide infrastructure, advice, resources, networking opportunities, training and funding. Given their shared goals, these programs work together to establish UofL as a world leader in innovation.

We understand that needs vary from project to project. To help you find the right program, a side-by-side comparison is available on this page.

Learn more about each of these programs by clicking the links above, or by contacting program administration.

FUNDING SOURCES BY TYPE

• FEDERAL GRANTS PROGRAMS
• FOUNDATIONS AND NON-PROFIT AGENCIES
• INTERNAL GRANTS
• INNOVATION INTERNAL GRANT FUNDING

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• HOW TO WRITE A PROPOSAL
• AWARDS PROCESS AT UOFL
• MANAGING AN AWARD
• CLOSING OUT AN AWARD