Connecting Bold Ideas to Breakthrough Impact.
Upcoming Events
Junior Faculty Seed Grant Workshop
April 8, 2026 | 2:00pm – 4:00pm | Building 68-181
The Innovation Frontier: Insiders’ Stories
The Discoveries and Decisions Leading to the Founding of Alnylam
April 9, 2026 | 11:00am – 12:00pm | McGovern Auditorium, Whitehead Institute
General Seed Grant Workshop
April 28, 2026 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Building 68-180
Core Facility Innovation Symposium
April 29, 2026 | 3:00pm – 4:30pm | Whitehead Institute
mission
MIT HEALS harnesses the Institute’s world-class expertise to confront health and life science challenges through bold research, life-centered innovation, data sharing, and inspired education—advancing breakthroughs that improve lives and empower future leaders.
Current Funding Opportunities
MIT HEALS Seed Grant
MIT HEALS Seed Grants provide seed funding to support collaborative projects at the cutting edge of health and life sciences with the goal of catalyzing new interactions, developing new technologies and methodologies, generating core datasets, and accelerating discovery.
Graduate Fellowships
The MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Graduate Fellowships are a highly selective fellowship program supporting exceptional graduate students in the 2026-2027 academic year.
Next-Generation Medical Imaging Fellowships
These fellowships aim to seed the next generation of biomedical imaging research, and transform our ability to study and improve human health.
Hood Hub Pediatric Innovation Awards
The MIT Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub invites visionary teams to help shape the future of pediatric healthcare with the launch of the 2026 MIT–Hood Hub Pediatric Innovation Awards.
HEALS Programs
Launched in collaboration with the Charles H. Hood Foundation, addressing unmet needs in pediatric medicine by developing technologies and treatments tailored specifically for children.
Funding joint research projects led by researchers at MIT and Mass General Brigham that advance research in human health, with the goal of developing next-generation therapies,
diagnostics, and digital tools that can improve lives at scale.
A bold new effort to transform how science and society understand the ways menstruation shapes women’s health.
Empowers innovation at the convergence of health science, artificial intelligence, and semiconductor technology leveraging minimally-invasive physiological measurements to improve human healthcare and wellness.
