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School of Medicine
UVA’s deepest translation engine — and the largest single source of faculty ventures.
46%of Enterprise Studio faculty ventures
$203M+in NIH awards, FY2025
#36nationally in NIH funding
Overview
Medicine has the most translational capital already in motion: dedicated innovation funds, Virginia’s NIH clinical-translational hub, and a pipeline that feeds the Manning Institute, the Coulter Center, Enterprise Studio and the BioAccelerator.
- LaunchPad for Diabetes — $1.1M a year; 77 projects, 6 startups, $19M follow-on over 15 years
- Ivy Biomedical Innovation Fund — about $500K a year, awards requiring a clinical collaborator
- UVA Cancer Center Accelerating Innovation Fund — about $1M a year
- iTHRIV pilot translational awards up to $50K
- FY25 ventures: Avant Genomics, Vasarya, S1P Therapeutics, Stepping In 4 Respect, Nouveau Biosciences
Connected across the map
Speed & ScaleManning Institute350K sq ft · 2027TranslationCoulter Center25 startups · $1.4BTranslationEnterprise Studio115 venturesSpeed & ScaleCommonwealth BioAccelerator$15M+ · 6 venturesThe NationNIH$203M to UVA · #36The NationNIH CTSA NetworkiTHRIV is the Virginia hubThe NationKEEN · NCI Designationcurriculum · 1 of 58 centersThe SchoolsEngineeringCoulter · VentureForwardThe SchoolsNursingno named programTranslationManning SPARK6 × $50,000Speed & ScaleFontaine Park54 acresThe CommonwealthVirginia Catalyst$40M · 75 grants
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