PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded more than $320,000 in seed funding for 22 promising university and hospital medical research projects.
The funding came through 18 endowments at the Foundation that are designated for medical research to help emerging junior investigators achieve permanent funding from national sources.
“Thanks to our generous donors, we are able to provide critical early funding to local researchers working to advance medical breakthroughs,” said Neil Steinberg, the Foundation’s president and CEO. “Many of our donors have recognized that Rhode Island’s research infrastructure is one of our state’s strongest assets and made it possible to support and encourage this promising work.”
A review panel made up of scientists and physicians assisted the Foundation in reviewing the medical research proposals.
The endowments that provided the funding are: the Marquise d’ Andigne Fund, Alice W. Bliss Memorial Fund, Charles V. Chapin Fellowship Fund, Anne Elizabeth Chase Fund, Samuel J. and Ester Chester Medical Research, Gilbert Clappin, Jr. Memorial Fund, Clean Competition, Frieda Dengal Fund, the Charles Goss Memorial Fund, Haire Family Fund, Herbert E. Hopkins Fund, Alice Newton, Phebe Parker Fund, Edythe K. and Jane E. Richmond Memorial Cancer Fund, John O. Strom Fund, Helen Walker Raleigh Vision Fund, Colonel Lee Walton and Xenia Roberts Memorial Foundation and Mary A. Young Cancer Fund.
With this round of funding, the Foundation has awarded more than $1.4 million in grants for medical research since 2008.