Eligible teams must include an engineer, preferably from Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science with an affiliation to the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and a practicing clinician, preferably with an appointment at Columbia University Medical Center. If you need an engineering or clinical collaborator, we may be able to facilitate introductions. 

All members of the team should be committed to commercialization objectives and be open to receiving mentorship, coaching, and oversight of their projects.

All technologies that may have a direct impact on human health will be considered (e.g. therapeutic drugs and devices, medical imaging, monitoring devices, biosensors, biomaterials, and platform technologies, etc.).  However, the most relevant are those where time to market can be achieved in less than 7 years.

Projects that propose to undertake discovery research will not be selected. Successful proposals must be translational in nature, i.e. they must focus on efforts to translate research results into practical clinical application. Visit http://www.bme.columbia.edu/coulterprojects for a description of projects funded in previous cycles

If you received an award from the Partnership in previous years, you may be eligible to apply for additional funding to support your project. Such additional funding is contingent on successful achievement of your previous milestones and demonstration of compelling market feedback requiring additional technical development, among other factors. To explore further, please contact us at coulter@columbia.edu.