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Current Opportunities

Seeking Novel Oral or Injectable Therapeutics to Treat Obesity

A world-leading health company is seeking novel therapeutics for obesity, with safety and efficacy data, preferably in canine models.

CSL Research Acceleration Initiative

CSL’s Research Acceleration Initiative aims to fast-track discovery of innovative biotherapies through partnerships between CSL and global research organizations.

Moisture Barrier for Sustainable Packaging

Amcor Flexibles is a leading producer of flexible packaging solutions for food, beverage, healthcare, and home/personal care markets. With a substantial presence globally, Amcor Flexibles utilizes various materials and processes to produce high barrier sustainable packaging.

Anti-adhesion Technologies for Synthetic Rubber Processing

We are looking for solutions to eliminate dusting during the EPDM curing process. This could involve changes to the manufacturing process, modifications to the EPDM formulation, or other approaches.

Non-plastic Advanced Materials for Beverage Containers

Our organization, a global food & beverage company, is interested in identifying non-plastic advanced materials for liquid containers. Environmental concerns, consumer demand, government regulations and corporate sustainability goals are all drivers for organizations moving away from plastic.

Argon Gas Purification and Recycling

In an integrated steel plant, ensuring the quality of finished product requires testing the chemical composition of input raw materials, intermediate products and the final steel at different stages of production to establish proper process control.

Previous Awards

iAwards

Partnership program designed to support collaborations with academic investigators to accelerate innovative early-stage, disease-relevant research towards the clinic.

Oncology RFP

Merck Research Laboratories Discovery Oncology SEEDS Program - Call for Proposals

Strategic Partnership

An initiative to work together with academic institutions to de-risk innovation and bridge the translational gap of early-stage research.

Amazon Research Awards

Announcing the fall 2023 call for proposals for AI for Information Security; Automated Reasoning, AWS AI, AWS Cryptography and Privacy, Distributed Database Systems, and Sustainability.

Sanofi iDEA-TECH Awards

The Sanofi iDEA-iTECH Awards initiative is designed to innovate through collaborations, with a focus on cutting-edge digital and data tools and new technologies for R&D applications.

Ongoing Parnerships

Vanderbilt-Ancora Collaboration

Ancora Innovations is a collaboration between Vanderbilt University and Deerfield Management, focused on the union of Vanderbilt’s innovative life science discovery efforts and Deerfield’s commitment to accelerating state-of-the-art drug development.

Bayer

Partnership program designed to support collaborations with academic investigators to accelerate innovative early-state Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Bayer have a five-year strategic research alliance to evaluate new drug candidates for the treatment of kidney diseases, with the goal of…

GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare has teamed up with Vanderbilt University Medical Center to develop more precise cancer immunotherapy diagnostics that use artificial intelligence to predict both efficacy and potential side effects.