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"Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Milestone-Based Acceleration Program" is currently closed and not accepting applications.
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Milestone-Based Acceleration Program is a grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center that funds a broad portfolio of life sciences initiatives across the Commonwealth, including collaborative research, biobank development, workforce training, and company expansion.
Programs include the Accelerating Research through Collaboration Awards, the Education and Workforce Grant Program, and the 2035 Fund supporting startups, research labs, and industry leaders. Eligible applicants vary by program and include life sciences companies of all sizes, academic institutions, nonprofits, and workforce training organizations based in Massachusetts.
The Education and Workforce Grant Program deadline was February 23, 2026.
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Developing an ecosystem like no other. Currently Accepting Applications Designed to break barriers by establishing disease-specific, accessible biobanks sourced from diverse patient populations across Massachusetts. Programs create hundreds of new internship opportunities each year for high school students, college students and recent graduates interested in life sciences careers in Massachusetts.
Funding to support organizations that can build and scale career pathways that effectively prepare students for career opportunities in the life sciences. Provides incentives to life science companies, of all sizes, looking to expand their efforts by creating new, long-term jobs in Massachusetts.
Application Deadline: March 31, 2026 The 2035 Fund is designed to strengthen every layer of the life sciences ecosystem spanning startups, research labs, industry leaders and the next generation of life sciences talent. Accelerating Research through Collaboration (ARC) Awards Aims to accelerate the research of pressing life science questions through collaboration and to attract and train scientists in the Commonwealth.
Application Deadline: November 21, 2025 Designed to break barriers by establishing disease-specific, accessible biobanks sourced from diverse patient populations across Massachusetts. The MLSC is actively evaluating the development of a BioBoost program intended to support companies creating or expanding biomanufacturing or medtech advanced manufacturing presence in Massachusetts.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Funds collaborative academic and industry translational research projects that generate and analyze large omics datasets to answer vital life science questions and train the next generation of data scientists in Massachusetts.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Education and Workforce Grant Program The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) seeks to develop, enhance, and expand life sciences education programs serving learners from elementary school through post-secondary, throughout the Commonwealth, to ensure that the industry has a robust workforce pipeline.
Application Deadline: February 23, 2026 Supports early-stage, high-risk translational research in historically underfunded and understudied sectors of the life sciences. Application Closed: November 21, 2025 High School Apprenticeship Challenge Facilitates and funds paid internships for underrepresented and low-income high school students. Also offers a pre-internship lab training program for some schools.
Programs create hundreds of new internship opportunities each year for high school students, college students and recent graduates interested in life sciences careers in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Next Generation Initiative Supporting a broad network of underrepresented entrepreneurs through funding, coaching, and network building.
Application Closed: June 13, 2025 Through the Municipal Basecamp, the MLSC is seeking to support and guide municipalities to set strategy and accomplish local goals to attract and encourage life science economic development. Funds pre-clinical research focused on understanding Alzheimer’s and neurodegenerative diseases at Massachusetts research institutions.
Application Closed: December 15, 2025 Novel Therapeutics Delivery Aims to foster the development of novel technologies and techniques for the delivery of existing or innovative therapies. Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Funding to support organizations that can build and scale career pathways that effectively prepare students for career opportunities in the life sciences.
Research Infrastructure and Equipment The MLSC is running two programs designed to provide grants for capital projects that support the life sciences ecosystem in Massachusetts by enabling and supporting life sciences R&D. Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Provides incentives to life science companies, of all sizes, looking to expand their efforts by creating new, long-term jobs in Massachusetts.
Application Deadline: March 31, 2026 Transforming Health Care in Massachusetts The MLSC is issuing a Request for Information to receive feedback and insight from market participants focused on promoting important health care equity and inclusion principles.
Application Deadline: October 10, 2025 Women’s Health Collaboration Program Developing novel solutions to treat conditions that solely or disproportionately affect women or have a different presentation between genders.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Women’s Health Initiative To support efforts which increase understanding of sex and gender differences in biology or developing solutions for diseases or conditions that affect women solely, disproportionately, or differently.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Workforce Development Capital Grant Program Seeks to seed, enhance and/or expand training programs that address critical skills and talent supply gaps facing the state’s life science industry. The 2035 Fund is designed to strengthen every layer of the life sciences ecosystem spanning startups, research labs, industry leaders and the next generation of life sciences talent.
Accelerating Research through Collaboration (ARC) Awards Accelerating Research through Collaboration (ARC) Awards Aims to accelerate the research of pressing life science questions through collaboration and to attract and train scientists in the Commonwealth.
Application Deadline: November 21, 2025 Designed to break barriers by establishing disease-specific, accessible biobanks sourced from diverse patient populations across Massachusetts. The MLSC is actively evaluating the development of a BioBoost program intended to support companies creating or expanding biomanufacturing or medtech advanced manufacturing presence in Massachusetts.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Funds collaborative academic and industry translational research projects that generate and analyze large omics datasets to answer vital life science questions and train the next generation of data scientists in Massachusetts.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Education and Workforce Grant Program Education and Workforce Grant Program The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) seeks to develop, enhance, and expand life sciences education programs serving learners from elementary school through post-secondary, throughout the Commonwealth, to ensure that the industry has a robust workforce pipeline.
Application Deadline: February 23, 2026 Supports early-stage, high-risk translational research in historically underfunded and understudied sectors of the life sciences. Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Programs create hundreds of new internship opportunities each year for high school students, college students and recent graduates interested in life sciences careers in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Next Generation Initiative Massachusetts Next Generation Initiative Supporting a broad network of underrepresented entrepreneurs through funding, coaching, and network building. Application Closed: June 13, 2025 Through the Municipal Basecamp, the MLSC is seeking to support and guide municipalities to set strategy and accomplish local goals to attract and encourage life science economic development.
Funds pre-clinical research focused on understanding Alzheimer’s and neurodegenerative diseases at Massachusetts research institutions. Application Closed: December 15, 2025 Novel Therapeutics Delivery Novel Therapeutics Delivery Aims to foster the development of novel technologies and techniques for the delivery of existing or innovative therapies.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Funding to support organizations that can build and scale career pathways that effectively prepare students for career opportunities in the life sciences.
Research Infrastructure and Equipment Research Infrastructure and Equipment The MLSC is running two programs designed to provide grants for capital projects that support the life sciences ecosystem in Massachusetts by enabling and supporting life sciences R&D.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Provides incentives to life science companies, of all sizes, looking to expand their efforts by creating new, long-term jobs in Massachusetts.
Application Deadline: March 31, 2026 Transforming Health Care in Massachusetts Transforming Health Care in Massachusetts The MLSC is issuing a Request for Information to receive feedback and insight from market participants focused on promoting important health care equity and inclusion principles.
Application Deadline: October 10, 2025 Women’s Health Collaboration Program Women’s Health Collaboration Program Developing novel solutions to treat conditions that solely or disproportionately affect women or have a different presentation between genders.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Women’s Health Initiative Women’s Health Initiative To support efforts which increase understanding of sex and gender differences in biology or developing solutions for diseases or conditions that affect women solely, disproportionately, or differently.
Application Closed: November 21, 2025 Workforce Development Capital Grant Program Workforce Development Capital Grant Program Seeks to seed, enhance and/or expand training programs that address critical skills and talent supply gaps facing the state’s life science industry. Connect with us to Learn More If you have any questions please email info@masslifesciences. com or click the button below.
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com Education and Infrastructure Innovation and Entrepreneurship Industry, Workforce, & Government Agencies Incubators, Accelerators, & Co-Working Spaces Internship Spotlight: Mercedes Garate MLSC Hosts Inaugural Convening of the Cores 1075 Main Street, Suite 100 Waltham, MA 02451 info@masslifesciences.
com Education and Infrastructure Innovation and Entrepreneurship Industry, Workforce, & Government Agencies Incubators, Accelerators, & Co-Working Spaces Internship Spotlight: Mercedes Garate MLSC Hosts Inaugural Convening of the Cores Olaris is a precision diagnostics company that is on a mission to revolutionize how diseases are diagnosed and treated.
By leveraging their CEREBRO platform (Comprehensive Early Responsive Evaluation of Biomarkers Related to Outcomes), which combines metabolomics and machine learning, they are able to harness the power of the body’s own communication system to discover and develop their pipeline of myOLARIS precision diagnostics. Hear from the Heart of the Hub This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Early-stage seed-stage life science startups in Massachusetts developing medical devices, health equity solutions, or other underinvested life sciences areas. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $250,000. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was June 12, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Milestone-Based Acceleration Program is funded by Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in Massachusetts. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
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