Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants

Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants

Funder: Human Immunome Project (HIP) and Michelson Medical Research Foundation (MMRF)

Award Amount: $150,000 per recipient

Recurrence: Annual

Geographic Scope: Global (no geographic restrictions mentioned)

Focus Areas:

Human immunology research

Vaccine discovery and development

Immunotherapy research

Understanding human immune variation and responses to infection

Mucosal vaccines

T cell immunology

Antibody discovery and characterization

Sex-based differences in immune responses

Target Population:

Early-career scientists and researchers

Assistant professors

Postdoctoral fellows

PhD students

Eligibility:
Proposals must demonstrate:

Novelty in approach

Potential to advance vaccines, immunotherapies, and understanding of human immune responses

Bold, high-risk, high-reward research ideas

Selection Process:

Proposals reviewed by a distinguished committee of internationally recognized scientists

Recipients honored at virtual award ceremony in collaboration with Keystone Symposia

Background:
The Michelson Medical Research Foundation was founded by Dr. Gary K. Michelson in 1995. The foundation accelerates solutions to global health challenges by fostering high-risk, high-reward approaches through convergent collaboration among engineers, scientists, and physicians.

Contact:
Media@ImmunomeProject.org or media@immuneproject.org

Website:
www.michelsonmedicalresearch.org

Recent Recipients (2022-2025):

2025: Dr. Omar Abudayyeh (Brigham and Women's Hospital), Dr. Caleb Lareau (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), Dr. Yuzhong Liu (Scripps Research)

2022: Dr. Jenna Guthmiller (University of Colorado), Dr. Brittany Hartwell (University of Minnesota), Romain Guyon (University of Oxford), Dr. Nicholas Wu (University of Illinois), Dr. Rong Ma (Emory University), Dr. Camila Consiglio (Karolinska Institutet), Dr. Michael Birnbaum (MIT), Dr. Danika Hill (Monash University)