Life Science Research

As a company that provides tools and services to facilitate bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, Millipore recognizes the importance of basic scientific research. By understanding the needs and ambitions of scientists, and by taking risks through creative exploration, we look past convention to push scientific boundaries.

Rapidly breaking new ground every year, stem cell research is the cutting edge field that best reflects our corporate values of execution, integrity, teamwork, innovation, and passion. Therefore, on September 17, 2007, the Millipore Foundation awarded a $500,000 grant ($100,000/year over five years) to the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) is a scientific collaborative within Harvard University established to fulfill the promise of stem cell biology as a basis for cures and treatments for a wide range of chronic and medical conditions. HSCI takes a broad approach, concerning itself not just with research, but with the teaching of stem cell science at the undergraduate level, teacher training at the middle and high school levels, and the ethical issues generated by this research.

We are funding HSCI’s Seed Grant Program. The purpose of these Seed Grants is to provide early funding for innovative projects in any field of stem cell research. The awards put particular emphasis on projects that might be difficult to fund from other sources, either because a project is considered to be “high risk/high reward” or because the research is ineligible for federal funding under the current federal restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research. HSCI usually receives 65 applications for these two-year grants and selects 10–14 recipients. Seed grants are open to any investigator with a Harvard affiliation and HSCI encourages collaborative proposals. HSCI will send out their next RFP in January, 2008 and recipients will be selected in late May/early June. At that time, Millipore will have the opportunity to review the projects and designate a Millipore Fellow for a two-year period. We will then repeat the selection process again in 2010 and 2012.

The Millipore Foundation is tremendously excited to be partnering with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to fund this cutting edge research by young scientists at the threshold of promising careers.

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