2025 CTIP Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation Grant (Up to $50,000) Deadline: 2 May, 2025

Applications are open for the CTIP Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation Grant 2025. Children have long been an underserved population in the technology space, often having to deal with medical devices that were never designed for them and lack of access to diagnostics and therapeutics that meet their specific needs. The Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP), an FDA-funded pediatric medical device accelerator centered at Lurie Children’s and CHLA, aims to change that by supporting pediatric device innovators from concept to commercialization through funding, advising, networking, and advocacy.

Their Annual Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation (CPI) Grant Competition will provide non-dilutive funds ranging from $25,000-$50,000 to pediatric medical device projects at any stage of development. Applications from startups, industry, and academia are welcome. Award recipients will also be eligible to receive CTIP’s wrap-around services to support their journey towards commercialization.

Grant

• Pediatric medical device innovators can be awarded up to $50,000 per grant for a term of six months.

Eligibility

Any company, group or individual working on the development of an innovative pediatric (but not fetal) medical device or technology within the US is eligible to apply.

Eligibility requirements for the Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation (CPI) Grant include the following:

• Must be a novel pediatric medical device or technology.
• Medical devices must meet the FDA definition of a medical device.
• Development of novel drugs and chemical therapies will not be funded. Process improvement and innovations are also not eligible for funding. In addition, fetal devices / technologies (without other pediatric applications) will not be funded.
• Projects must be a pediatric medical device or technology innovation that leads to improved patient experience, quality, outcomes, or efficiency.
• Eligible projects must have clear achievable milestones for the funding period with specific metrics or deliverables.
• Projects should be short in duration with funding intended to last no more than six months.

Application

Applicants are to include the following elements in the letter of intent (maximum length 1 page, minimum 11-point font):

• Project name (and company name, if applicable) and Innovator(s) (include list of key collaborators)
• Contact Information: primary contact name, email address, phone number and mailing address
• Description of unmet need, proposed solution, and competitive landscape
• Approximate budget and use of funds
• Expected outcomes from the use of funds

Note, letters of intent must include all of the above elements to be considered. Label your project’s file name using the format: “CPI LOI_Project Name”. Submit a PDF file of the letter of intent here.

The deadline for receipt of the letters is Friday, May 2, 2025. Letters longer than 1 page will not be evaluated.

For more information, visit CTIP Pediatric Medical Device Grant.