Breakthrough Research
Grants Program

Overview

Established in 2020, the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins University, accomplishes its mission through the 5Cs – Convening, Coordinating, Communicating, Creating Community and Catalysing efforts to create tangible impact in society. The flagship Breakthrough Grants Program is a catalytic funding awarded through a competitive process to junior faculty at JHU to collaborate on research with Indian partners. In its four funding cycles so far, the program has funded initiatives on digital health, climate change and non-communicable diseases and supported partners such as IIT-Bombay, Ashoka University, Department of Biotechnology Government of India and D.Y. Patil Medical University in closely working with JHU faculty members on groundbreaking research. Cumulatively this amounts to over 300,000 USD in co-funding opportunities.

Objective of the Program

The breakthrough grants program supports JHU faculty pilot projects with cofounding possibilities with Indian partners. These small grants supporting the projects have an 18-month duration of funding. At is core the breakthrough grants program aims to fund pioneering ideas as an initial seed grant acknowledging the potential of the ideas to generate an estimated 4-fold larger funding for scale up through larger donors. Generally, the program funds 2-3 proposals for a total amount ranging between 50-60K USD in co-funding.