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UMass Awarded $5.5 Million to Apply Research to Real World
Peter Reinhart calls the grant “an unprecedented opportunity to build a sustainable innovation engine.”
Ateam from UMass Amherst recently won a $5.5 million Accelerating Research Transla- tion (ART) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support and expand faculty and student researchers’ efforts to translate research con- ducted in campus laboratories into tangible solutions to real-world problems.
The UMass team, which includes the Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS), the Technology Trans- fer Office, the Office of Research & Engagement, and the Office of the Provost, is one of only 18 nationwide announced in the program’s inaugural year. It is the only award made in New England, and one of just three in the Northeast.
“NSF endeavors to empower academic institutions to build the pathways and structures needed to speed and scale their research into products and services that benefit the nation,” NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan said, adding that the ART program “identifies and champions institutions positioned to expand their research-translation capacity by invest- ing in activities essential to move results to practice.”
UMass Amherst Chancellor Javier Reyes noted that “the resources and nationwide network that this award brings to the campus will open new opportuni- ties for our researchers to make a positive impact on society and will strengthen their ability to contribute to economic development in the region and beyond.”
Provost Mike Malone added that “receiving ART
funding from NSF is a vote of confidence in the excel- lence of campus researchers and the potential for their work to translate into products, spinout ven- tures, and social enterprises that solve important real- world problems.”
Each ART awardee will benefit from a partner- ship with a mentoring institution of higher education that already has a robust ecosystem for translational research. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will serve in that role for UMass. As such, the UMass Amherst team will be able to take advantage of MIT’s research-translation prowess to develop individual faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate- student researchers, as well as its knowhow in the development of new startup companies.
Roman Lubynsky, executive director of the New England Regional Innovation Node at MIT, has already begun to work with the UMass team as lead mentor, noting that “the IHE mentor role provides an ideal opportunity for us to build upon and expand our ongoing relationship with UMass Amherst, including facilitating access to and adaptation of best practices from across MIT’s translational enterprise.”
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