As key members of a consortium of university and industry partners, University of Wisconsin-Madison investigators can compete for funding—from an overall pot of $10 billion—to catalyze innovative medical solutions for military applications and rapidly migrate those technologies out of the lab and into use.
UW-Madison is among eight academic and 64 industry partners in the consortium, which is led by the University of Pittsburgh. It was among a limited number of consortia selected to participate in a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) initiative called “Omnibus IV.” Through the consortium, UW-Madison investigators are eligible to apply for DOD medical research and development funding.
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