OTHER AWARDS

Throughout the year, CIMIT accepts proposals and makes awards in these areas:

CIMIT- Medical Engineering Fellowships: These two awards are funded respectively by CIMIT and MIT and by CIMIT and Boston University; each goes to one outstanding student at each school per year. This award creates multi-year support for graduate engineering students to work in highly innovative but under-funded areas of healthcare research such as medical device development, new algorithms, software for use in clinical practices and the engineering of medical environments.

Young Clinician Awards: This is a grant to “early career” clinicians of consortium hospitals (perhaps an Instructor or Assistant Professor) to study a specific area of clinical interest. It is funded by outside gifts. Most successful applicants are interdisciplinary researchers doing CIMIT-like device development.

Global Health Initiative Awards: These grants (of varying size) are dedicated to designing medical devices and technologies to improve the quality and availability of care for underserved patient populations in this country and around the world. They are funded by targeted and unrestricted gifts to the CIMIT Medical Access Program (MAP). Organizers are developing projects that will better serve the needs of the pediatric population, remote medical teams, emergency and disaster providers, refugee medical clinics, and women's healthcare.

Awards supported by philanthropic gifts: CIMIT provides awards supported by philanthropic gifts. These are solicited when funding is available.