Fast Forward Medical Innovation

1. December 4, 2023

   New program’s goal is to aid development of therapeutics

   The Rogel Cancer Center Innovation Program is designed to help faculty, clinicians and research scientists develop novel therapeutics and successfully communicate the value of their research.

2. May 1, 2023

   Life Sciences Innovation Hub awards $1M to biomedical projects

   The Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization Life Sciences Innovation Hub at U-M awarded nearly $1 million to support and advance six translational research projects.

3. October 21, 2020

   Projects awarded $3.3 million by Frankel Innovation Initiative

   Fast Forward Medical Innovation, a unit of the Medical School Office of Research, has awarded a combined $3.3 million in funding to four biomedical research projects.

4. November 10, 2016

   Monroe-Brown Seed Fund awards $400K inaugural investment

   The Monroe-Brown Seed Fund has made its inaugural investment of $400,000 in two U-M biomedical startups: Genomenon Inc. and Brio Device LLC.

5. October 10, 2016

   Inaugural MCTI Therapeutic Innovation Fund selects six teams

   Five teams from the Medical School and one from the College of Pharmacy have won funding to take their research on potential new medicines to the next level.

6. April 21, 2016

   New fund to accelerate engineering, medical research products

   U-M has launched the Monroe-Brown Seed Fund to advance the process of transitioning commercially viable engineering and medical research projects to market.