18 awards totaling more than $100 million will to enable academic institutions to accelerate the pace and scale of translational research leading to real-world solutions.

Authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act, the the Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program addresses a long-standing gap between academic research and the need for practical products, services and solutions. Each ART awardee will receive up to $6 million over four years to identify and build upon academic research with the potential for technology transfer and societal and economic impacts, to ensure availability of staff with technology transfer expertise and to support the education and training of entrepreneurial faculty and students. Each ART awardee institution will benefit from having a partnership with a mentoring institution of higher education (IHE) that already has a robust ecosystem for translational research. A strong partnership between the awardee institution and a mentoring institution with an established translational research ecosystem is one of the unique features of the ART program. At least 15 universities are among the partner mentoring institutions that are part of the ART network formed by this cohort of awardees which include nine projects from EPSCoR states.

“NSF endeavors to empower academic institutions to build the pathways and structures needed to speed and scale their research into products and services that benefit the nation,” said NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. “The Accelerating Research Translation program in NSF’s new Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) Directorate identifies and champions institutions positioned to expand their research translation capacity by investing in activities essential to move results to practice.”

ART awardees

The awardees are listed in alphabetical order by the institution name below. The full award list can be found on NSF’s website.

• American University (mentor: University of Michigan).
• Boise State University (mentor: Arizona State University).
• Clemson University (mentor: North Carolina State University).
• Florida State University (mentor: University of Florida).
• George Mason University (mentor: University of Kentucky, Lexington).
• Illinois Institute of Technology (mentor: University of Chicago).
• Lehigh University (mentor: Carnegie Mellon University).
• Montana State University (mentor: University of Washington, Seattle).
• New Jersey Institute of Technology (mentor: Princeton University).
• SUNY Binghamton (mentor: Columbia University).
• The University of Alabama (mentor: University of Notre Dame).
• The University of Central Florida (mentor: Georgia Institute of Technology).
• The University of Oklahoma (mentor: Purdue University).
• University of Delaware (mentor: Princeton University).
• University of Massachusetts Amherst (mentor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
• University of Missouri (mentor: Washington University in St. Louis).
• University of Southern Mississippi (mentor: University of Arizona).
• University of Wyoming (mentor: Colorado State University).

The ART program addresses a long-standing gap between academic research and the need for practical products, services and solutions. While ART seeks to build capacity and infrastructure for translational research at U.S. IHEs, the program also aims to enhance the role of IHEs in regional innovation ecosystems and effectively train graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in translational research, benefiting them across a range of career options.