NIH Center for Accelerated Innovations (NCAI)
Understand NCAI's program goals, learn about the 3 centers that comprise the program, and which institutes are eligible to participate.
The NIH Centers for Accelerated Innovations (NCAI) program includes 3 proof-of-concept centers with 28 high-impact research institutes in 7 states. The Program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and supports technologies in the NHLBI mission space.
The NCAI program focuses on bringing basic science discoveries to market by providing:
- Entrepreneurial training for innovators on how to bring technologies to market
- Feedback from federal and industry experts
- Funding to support early-stage product definition studies
- Project management support
Proof of Concept Network
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NIH Centers for Accelerated Innovation (NCAI) - 2013
Learn more about the 3 centers and eligible institutes below:
B-BIC
Boston Biomedical Innovation Center
Institutes:
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Partners Healthcare
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Boston Children’s Hospital
- Boston University
- Draper Laboratory
- Tufts University
- Northeastern University
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Harvard Medical School
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston Medical Center
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Forsyth Institute
- Brown University
- Maine Medical Center
NCAI-CC
NCAI Cleveland Clinic
Institutes:
- Case Western Reserve
- Cleveland Clinic
- Northwestern University
- University of Cincinnati
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Ohio State University
- University of Michigan
UC CAI
University of California CAI
Institutes:
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, San Diego
