establishing its long-term strategic plan. In drug development company operating out of
the short term, one of the agreed-upon goals the Ryan Institute at URI. Such investments
for the next year is to pool financial resources would happen in partnership with the Slater
across the institutions to open up a seed-grant Technology Fund, and would give the Collabo-
funding program for researchers in Rhode ration an opportunity to help grow economic
Island who are working in the area of development in the neurosciences by
neurodegenerative diseases. The purpose of supporting initiatives that might fall outside
the seed funding is to build up a cadre of the walls of the hospitals and universities.
RO1-funded (RO1 is a National Institutes of
Health grant program designation) scientists
across the institutions to be competitive for
larger National Institutes of Health grants
later on.
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The Collaboration is also exploring pooling
funds to invest in neuroscience startups, such
as MindImmune Therapeutics, a newly formed
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