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University of Illinois at Chicago
12/16/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/16/2025 10:55
Save the date: Chancellor’s Translational Research Initiative application opens Jan. 5
The Chancellor's Translational Research Initiative will begin accepting applications starting Jan. 5, 2026. This opportunity offers up to $25,000 per project to help propel early-stage innovations toward commercialization, licensing and startup opportunities.
About the Chancellor's Translational Research Initiative:
- Funding amount: Up to $25,000, with a four-month project period.
- Purpose: Support for licensing and startup readiness, future funding readiness and progression through UIC's innovation pipeline.
- Eligibility: Full-time UIC faculty, staff and researchers with an invention disclosure (or commitment to generate one) through the UIC Office of Technology Management.
- Restrictions: Awarded funds cannot be used for salary (except graduate assistant/hourly student wages).
Why apply?
- Advances your project's technology readiness level.
- Prepares innovations for future funding and commercialization.
- Often serves as a stepping stone to the Proof of Concept Awards program.
Full details - including key dates, criteria and steps - are available on the Office of Technology Management website.
Stay tuned for the formal call for applications soon.
For more information, please contact:
Tamira Davis
[email protected]
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