View the 2025 Momentum Grant recipients.
The 2025 Momentum Grants are a joint initiative between the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS), and the MIT Climate Project.
These grants support research and translation to accelerate promising technologies toward real-world impact. Each award provides up to $125,000 in funding for one year, along with dedicated mentorship from Deshpande Center Catalysts to help teams define plans for further technology development and commercialization milestones.
Applications are limited to MIT Principal Investigators (PIs).
Earlier this year, five Climate Project-Deshpande Center Momentum Grants were awarded.
Available Grant Tracks
The Momentum Grant program has two tracks:
- MIT HEALS-Deshpande Center Momentum Grants:
Focused on technologies that address critical challenges in health and life sciences and align with the core mission of HEALS. Ideal proposals break disciplinary silos, ask new and ambitious scientific questions, develop solutions to problems or bottlenecks, harness cutting-edge technologies, and have the potential to transform health and life sciences. See last year’s grants for reference.
- Climate Project–Deshpande Center Momentum Grants:
Focused on bold, integrative proposals that advance solutions to one of the defining challenges of our time: building well-being for people and the planet. Ideal proposals address issue- or place-based needs and have potential to deliver impact at scale. See last year’s recipients for reference.
Both tracks prioritize interdisciplinary collaboration and a clear path to impact and implementation. Proposals must be submitted by MIT PI’s.
Funding Timeline
Applications open on June 1, 2026 and are due on July 13, 2026. Principal Investigators advancing to the second stage of the selection process will be notified in September. Funding will begin January 1, 2027, and run through the calendar year.
More Information
For full application instructions and templates, please visit the MIT HEALS Momentum Grant InfoReady site and the Climate Project Momentum Grant InfoReady site. For questions regarding project fit or scope, please email Andi Blumenau at the Deshpande Center (ablumen@mit.edu).