Below is a list of the “active” grants of the Flinn Foundation—those grants that have been awarded and have yet to receive final payment; and/or for which grant-related activities have not concluded.
Many Flinn Foundation grants are multi-year awards that receive payments at several junctures. In some cases, grants are extended (without additional funding) beyond their scheduled date of conclusion.
This list is not comprehensive, as it excludes modest grants for membership dues to philanthropic organizations and other miscellaneous awards, but represents the Foundation’s project-specific grant-making activity to achieve its strategic goals.
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Arizona State University
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Amount: 100,000
Award Date: 2025
Duration: 18 months
Program Area: Bioscience
Translational Seed Grant: NuTag is a device for quick analysis of brain tissue during brain tumor surgery to guide decision-making. NuTag uses a probe to stain tissue using DNA nanostructures that can be detected by an optical device during surgery. Traditional methods are either fast but not specific or specific but not fast.
Arizona State University
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Amount: 100,000
Award Date: 2025
Duration: 18 months
Program Area: Bioscience
Translational Seed Grant: A challenge in the growing cell and gene therapy market is the identification and selection of specific cells of interest. The team has developed a method of more efficiently and accurately sorting cells based on RNA markers. The goal is to integrate the method into existing workflows, reducing costs and time for biomedical research and clinical therapies.
Arizona State University
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Amount: 100,000
Award Date: 2025
Duration: 18 months
Program Area: Bioscience
Translational Seed Grant: The team has developed Ammolite to deliver migraine symptom-improving green light via natural white light to improve brain fatigue and discomfort. Migraines affect 12% of the global population and light sensitivity is a common symptom. Green light can decrease pain intensity and headache days.
Arizona State University
City: Tempe
Amount: 594,000
Award Date: 2024
Duration: 48 months
Program Area: Flinn Scholars
Scholarship awards for members of the Flinn Scholars Class of 2024.
Arizona State University
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Amount: 3,328,787
Award Date: 2024
Duration: 60 months
Program Area: Bioscience
Supports creation of the Division of Medical Engineering in collaboration with Mayo Clinic Arizona to foster a best-in-class learning and innovation ecosystem where faculty, clinical staff, and students collaborate to solve real-world clinical problems. Flinn Foundation funds matched by ASU and Mayo to launch new graduate education programs, including an immersive Biomedical Technology Innovation and Design master’s degree.