Life Sciences Innovation and Collaboration Network
Our team is here to help life and health sciences faculty move from vision to reality. Unlike programs that focus on individual proposals, we complement those efforts by assisting multidisciplinary teams (minimum two faculty members) to map out long-term strategies tailored to their research goals. Whether it’s building the right team, securing seed funding, navigating NIH R01s, scaling to center grants, or exploring foundation, corporate, and commercialization pathways, we provide guidance every step of the way. We don’t stop at submission — we stay with you after funding to ensure momentum and growth toward the scientific impact you envision, in pursuing strategic goals in life and health sciences.
Eligibility
- Leading Principal Investigator must be Purdue faculty at West Lafayette or Indianapolis
- Minimum two faculty members
Our Services
- Strategic Research Planning — Help define research visions and map out strategies to achieve short-term milestones and long-term goals.
- Multidisciplinary Team Formation — Support teams of at least two faculty from different disciplines by identifying gaps and connecting necessary additional expertise across campus and beyond.
- Proposal Development and Support — Provide team building guidance, proposal structuring, review and editing, budgeting advice, as well as collecting or drafting supporting documents.
- Program Management and Administration — Assist in securing professional staff to manage day-to-day operation for large-scale proposals to coordinate project activities, seed grants, reporting, and team communication.
- DPD Letters of Support — Provide letters from Discovery Park District (DPD) Institutes and Centers to strengthen proposals and highlight institutional backing.
- DPD Core Facilities — Help connect with and leverage DPD core facilities to advance research goals.
- Funding Pathway Navigation — Help identify appropriate mechanisms (seed grants, private funding, NIH R01s, multi-PI and center grants) and create plans for scaling research impacts.
- Corporate & Foundation Engagement — Facilitate connections with industry partners, foundations, and commercialization opportunities.
- Post-Award Momentum — Stay engaged after funding is secured to support project momentum, identify follow-on opportunities, and guide expansion into larger initiatives.