The Huck is proud to support a portfolio of trailblazing seed funding initiatives. The Huck Innovative and Transformational Seed (HITS) Fund provides backing for risky but potentially revolutionary projects that are unlikely to receive funding from traditional sources. The Patricia and Steven Benkovic Research Initiative supports similar boldly innovative, high-risk proposals at the interface of chemistry and the life sciences. Our Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research (IPDR) program is focused on development and leveraging of strategic partnerships and alliances with Minority Serving Institutions, advancing research development capability as well as student and faculty training needed to support such research collaborations. Finally, our 48 Seed-Funded COVID-19 Projects rapidly mobilized resources to address the urgent challenges posed by the pandemic, supporting a comprehensive selection of responses across six core areas. The research supported by this initiative is still producing new science about infectious diseases and strategies to combat their spread and effects.
Seed Funding
Driving breakthroughs and creating new, impactful collaborations with interdisciplinary life sciences seed funding
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Three projects receive Huck Innovative and Transformational Seed Fund grants
Three potentially high-impact, high-risk research projects have been selected to receive seed funding for the latest round of the Huck Innovative and Transformational Seed (HITS) Fund initiative.
Seed grants to foster research collaborations with Minority Serving Institutions
Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has initiated a new grant program to seed collaborative, interdisciplinary projects that would bring together researchers from Penn State and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
First round of funded projects announced from the Benkovic Research Initiative
Four projects have been announced as recipients of funding from the Patricia and Stephen Benkovic Research Initiative, which supports risky, highly innovative investigation at the interface of chemistry and the life sciences.
News
Three projects receive Huck Innovative and Transformational Seed Fund grants
Three potentially high-impact, high-risk research projects have been selected to receive seed funding for the latest round of the Huck Innovative and Transformational Seed (HITS) Fund initiative.
Seed grants to foster research collaborations with Minority Serving Institutions
Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has initiated a new grant program to seed collaborative, interdisciplinary projects that would bring together researchers from Penn State and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
First round of funded projects announced from the Benkovic Research Initiative
Four projects have been announced as recipients of funding from the Patricia and Stephen Benkovic Research Initiative, which supports risky, highly innovative investigation at the interface of chemistry and the life sciences.
Benkovics support pioneering research in chemistry and the life sciences
You might think of Patricia and Stephen Benkovic as Penn State’s “first couple of chemistry,” considering all the pioneering contributions they’ve made at the University in their shared discipline over a span of more than five decades. Now the pair are giving back to their research community in an exciting new way, hoping to inspire the next generation of scientists to carry the torch of innovation and discovery to even greater heights.