Servier Research Alliance Proposal Deadline

Date: 

Monday, March 5, 2018 (All day)

Servier-Harvard Research Alliance
Deadline: March 5, 2018
Award Amount: $750,000/year for up to 3 years total costs (direct and indirect)
Eligible Applicants: Anyone with PI rights whose employer is Harvard University and who has an obligation to assign intellectual property rights to Harvard is eligible to apply. Postdocs and research scientists who are interested in applying should discuss with their PI and apply jointly.

Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD) is pleased to announce the establishment of a strategic research alliance between Harvard University and Servier (www.servier.com). This alliance will support collaborative, PI-initiated projects aimed at developing innovative therapeutics (including small molecule, peptides, and antibodies), identifying new biological mechanisms & targets, and developing novel drug delivery/targeting approaches across disease areas of mutual interest. This Request for Proposals (RFP) is seeking proposals for innovative sponsored research projects in the following areas of excellence:

  1. Cardiovascular Disease: including physiopathological and regenerative approaches.
  2. Metabolic Disease: including beta cell function and end-organ protection, metabolic inflexibility, microbiome, and inflammation.
  3. Oncology: including apoptosis and Immuno-Oncology, protein target degradation, new vectorization technologies, and epigenetics.
  4. Immuno-Inflammatory Disease: including cytokine and immune regulatory molecules, immuno-inflammation biology, and physiopathology of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
  5. Neurodegenerative Disease: including proteinopathies, neuroinflammation, proteostasis and clearance.
  6. Novel Therapeutic Modalities and Drug Vectorization: including RNA targeting using small molecules and nanotechnology therapeutic modalities.
  7. Novel Structural Biology and Computational Biology Approaches

For additional information on the opportunity, including a more detailed RFP and application template, please contact your Director of Business Development at OTD or email Jessica Goodman, Director of Corporate Alliances (jessica_goodman@harvard.edu).