Connecting Bold Ideas to Breakthrough Impact.
Upcoming Events
The Innovation Frontier: Insiders’ Stories
A Conversation with Executive Chairperson and Founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
October 1, 2026 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Location TBD
mission
MIT HEALS harnesses the Institute’s world-class expertise to confront health and life science challenges through bold research, life-centered innovation, data sharing, and inspired education—advancing breakthroughs that improve lives and empower future leaders.
Current Funding Opportunities
MIT HEALS and Deshpande Center Momentum Grants
Focused on technologies that address critical challenges in health and the life sciences and align with the core mission of HEALS. Ideal proposals should ask new and ambitious scientific questions, and have the potential to transform health and life sciences.
HEALS Programs
Launched in collaboration with the Charles H. Hood Foundation, addressing unmet needs in pediatric medicine by developing technologies and treatments tailored specifically for children.
Funding joint research projects led by researchers at MIT and Mass General Brigham that advance research in human health, with the goal of developing next-generation therapies,
diagnostics, and digital tools that can improve lives at scale.
A bold new effort to transform how science and society understand the ways menstruation shapes women’s health.
Empowers innovation at the convergence of health science, artificial intelligence, and semiconductor technology leveraging minimally-invasive physiological measurements to improve human healthcare and wellness.
