# Innovation to Impact:  Translational Education

> **NIH NIH R25** · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $253,081

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The proposal's long-term goal is to build a platform of scalable educational resources to support
translational entrepreneurism by students and seasoned experts in the substance abuse field.
The program encompasses a comprehensive program to bridge gaps between practical
knowledge and development of innovative solutions through entrepreneurship training.
Coursework will focus on business case studies. Building a scalable network for online
resources, the program will preserve supportive connections to course participants, and
strengthen networks to others forming a nexus for entrepreneurism.
The first aim of the program introduces a weeklong course, comprehensive online support,
and recurring access to entrepreneurship mentors. Covering all aspects of entrepreneurism,
from ideation through product development, national searches will attract diverse course
participants. The program will be guided by sophisticated industry experts and investor groups
through an Advisory Board and course lectures leveraging well-established relationships and
targeted for early stage ventures.
The second aim expands the program to build an ecosytem of innovation within the field of
substance abuse treatment. Through connections to course alumni and venture resources,
networks for ongoing support across the community will retain neuroscientists and substance
abuse experts by providing them with career opportunities in alternative paths such as industry,
FDA or reimbursement.
The third aim supports the two previous aims by seeding diverse successes through a
nationwide campaign to attract non-traditional participants from a range of disciplines and
experiences, and at different stages of their career trajectories and selecting diversity in gender
and backgrounds.
The Yale Entrepreneurship Institute (YEI) is well suited to achieve these aims. For over twelve
years, YEI has created successful programs for students and faculty translating their ideas into
new companies and translational products and services. YEI guides young companies honing
an approach using lectures and practical workshops, and building networks of industry advisors
and mentors. Participants will draw from their working knowledge of limitations in current
substance abuse interventions to highlight pain points experienced by victims of substance
abuse best poised for groundbreaking solutions.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9922256
- **Project number:** 5R25DA043870-04
- **Recipient organization:** YALE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Seth Feuerstein
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $253,081
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-04-01 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9922256

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9922256, Innovation to Impact:  Translational Education (5R25DA043870-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9922256. Licensed CC0.

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