Announcing PORTENT 2025 Innovation Award Opportunity

PORTENT is now accepting applications for 2025-26 Innovation Award Opportunity!

PORTENT is focused on supporting development, clinical validation, commercialization, and deployment of point-of-care technologies for nutrition, infection, and cancer. Part of the POCTRN+ network, PORTENT is supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Specific criteria for awards:

1. Proposals must show direct responsiveness to our Annual Needs Assessment Consensus.
2. Projects must identify an intended “setting of use” where their technology could have the greatest impact.
3. Projects must be at least at the TRL stage 3-5.
4. Proposals must identify specific milestones and describe how a successful outcome could advance the technology towards translational outcome. 
5. Projects must identify the key challenge(s) to advancement and implementation of their technology.
6. Include details on how the PORTENT Clinical Network, PORTENT Knowledge Transfer workshops and Lab-to-Market Accelerator can help address some of the key challenges.

Award Opportunity details:

• Total funds available: Approximately $500,000 USD
• Project budget: Between $50,000 and $100,000 USD
• Project duration: 12-months
• Application deadline: June 6, 2025

2025 Award priorities:  

Chronic disease, infectious disease, and disease prevention, and specifically include, but are not limited to:

• Nutrition: Technologies that support the screening, prevention, and diagnosis of nutritional problems.
• Infection: Multiplexed screening/diagnostic assays for infections such as those diagnosing HIV and co-infections, acute febrile illness, neglected tropical diseases, and/or mosquito borne illnesses (e.g. Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya).
• Cancer: Technologies that broaden cancer screening, diagnosis, and screening to community and clinic level.
• Within these focus areas, proposals with alignment with Digital Health, AI & Connectivity and Wellness solutions are also encouraged.

About us

PORTENT, a Center for Point-of-Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer at Cornell University is a one-of-a-kind international network of clinical, training, and device development facilities with worldwide expertise in point-of-care diagnostics, their application and commercialization. A member of the POCTRN network, the PORTENT Center is focused on supporting development, clinical validation, commercialization, and deployment of point-of-care technologies in locations where access to better diagnostics can have the largest impact.