Prisma Innovation Maturation Fund

Funder: Joint effort between Clemson University Division of Research and Health Sciences Center (HSC) at Prisma Health

Geographic Scope: Clemson University and Prisma Health (South Carolina)

The Prisma Innovation Maturation Fund is a joint funding and collaboration program designed to increase applied research collaborations between Clemson University health research faculty and Prisma Health clinicians. The program serves as a funding and collaboration catalyst.

Focus Areas:

• Medical technology innovations
• Health-related research
• High-potential follow-on sponsored research
• Commercialization opportunities
• COVID-19 research (evidenced by 2020 awards)
• Point of care diagnostics
• Medical devices
• Antiviral therapeutics
• Remote patient monitoring systems

Program Goals:

• Promote ideation and design of medical technology innovations
• Combine scientific expertise and engineering competencies of Clemson with translational and clinical competencies of Prisma Health
• Advance promising innovations toward tangible products/services
• Support concept-to-product development

Eligible Applicants:

• Clemson University health research faculty
• Prisma Health clinicians
• Joint research teams between Clemson and Prisma Health

Contact Information:

• Clemson University Research Foundation
• 391 College Avenue, Suite 401
• Clemson, SC 29631
• Phone: (864) 656-0797
• Executive Director: Chris Gesswein