The key to sustaining CIMIT’s innovative investigators is a flow of adequate funding from numerous sources. The Development team works to secure support from a wide variety of constituencies including consortium member institutions, public and private foundations, and philanthropic gifts. This group works with CIMIT’s Program Leaders and investigators to identify, cultivate and solicit prospective donors for their specific initiatives.

CIMIT has provided our team with the seed funding necessary to initiate the development of a device that is now proving to be valuable. The one-year funding enabled us to launch this project. We now have enough momentum to determine if the device will indeed be useful for basic biology or for diagnostics. This is catalytic funding!