Advancing research on healthcare’s most intractable diseases through multidisciplinary teams
MGH Grand Challenge Award
With the Foundation’s gift, the MGH Research Institute has launched Rappaport MGH Grand Challenge Award, an annual $3 million grant designed to encourage the formation of multi-disciplinary teams to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in medicine. Each year, for a decade, with the help of a team of internal and external experts, the Research Institute will identify priority issues facing human health. Once the Grand Challenge focus area is selected, the Research Institute will solicit team applications, with the winning team receiving a $3 million award to advance their proposal. By building on this proven model, the Rappaport MGH Grand Challenge will bring vital resources to healthcare’s most intractable problems and inspire the entire MGB research community.
Advancing research on healthcare’s most intractable diseases through multidisciplinary teams
With the Foundation’s gift, the MGH Research Institute has launched Rappaport MGH Grand Challenge Award, an annual $3 million grant designed to encourage the formation of multi-disciplinary teams to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in medicine. Each year, for a decade, with the help of a team of internal and external experts, the Research Institute will identify priority issues facing human health. Once the Grand Challenge focus area is selected, the Research Institute will solicit team applications, with the winning team receiving a $3 million award to advance their proposal. By building on this proven model, the Rappaport MGH Grand Challenge will bring vital resources to healthcare’s most intractable problems and inspire the entire MGB research community.
“As the inaugural Co-Chairs of the Rappaport MGH Grand Challenge Advisory Board, we are grateful to The Phyllis & Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation for establishing the Rappaport MGH Grand Challenge Award. This visionary gift is inspiring our investigators to collaborate in new ways and tackle some of the most pressing questions in medicine. The opportunity to support bold, interdisciplinary science with the potential to improve patient care is an extraordinary privilege made possible by the generosity of the Foundation.”
Gabriela Apiou, PhD, Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair in Translational Sciences; Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSC, Executive Director of MGB Neuroscience Institute; Maurizio Fava, MD, Chair of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centers, Mass General Brigham
