Established through a generous $5.4 million gift from businessman and philanthropist Louis B. Thalheimer, the Fund provides seed funding for vital proof-of-concept and validation studies of valuable technologies at Johns Hopkins. Recipients are awarded $25,000 to $100,000 to conduct work over a period of up to nine months.
Applications are currently closed.
Eligibility
To be considered, your application must meet the following criteria:
- Your technology must be formally disclosed to the Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures office and assigned a case number (e.g. C12345) Report an invention here: https://ventures.jhu.edu/roi/
- The proposed project cannot include a technology, defined by case number, that has received an internal JHU translational funding award during the current fiscal year.
- The invention must not be subject to any pre-existing exclusive licenses, non-exclusive licenses, or options.
- At least one investigator must have a full, joint, or courtesy faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins University.
- Only one application per Lead Principal Investigator per application cycle.
- The application must NOT exceed 5 pages, excluding the cover page and letters of support, with a minimum 10-point font size and half inch margins.
Please note: The Louis B. Thalheimer Fund for Translational Research is an evergreen fund. When Thalheimer-funded technologies are successfully licensed, a portion of the Hopkins’ license revenue (twice the award amount) is repaid to the Thalheimer Fund to support future projects. Therefore, if a technology receives a $100,000 award, $200,000 is repaid to the Thalheimer Fund before any revenues are distributed to Johns Hopkins, including inventors.
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