Biswas Family Foundation: AI & Health

Award: $25,000 - $100,000, depending on tier
Deadline: December 15, 2026
Interested? Please fill out the Sponsored Program's Proposal Request Form to be assigned a research administrator.

Full Request for Proposals (RFP)

Overview

Funder seeks to support high-impact projects at the juncture of AI and health. They want to provide rapid, flexible support for promising research around these themes:

  • Training, fine-tuning, or evaluating models on biomedical data
  • Exploring or assembling datasets that could unlock new clinical or biological insight
  • Building AI tools or agents that scale a scientist's leverage
  • Pilot experiments that de-risk a bigger funding ask
  • Anything else where modest, fast capital meaningfully accelerates an AI or data-driven path to a health breakthrough

Funder has two research pillars: 

AI-Driven Diagnostics and Prediction

  • Computational cardiology and stroke prevention
  • AI-enabled diagnostics that drop cost and raise frequency
  • AI for metabolic disease
  • Cancer early detection (especially open-source multi-cancer early detection)
  • Medical forecasting and multimodal risk

Personalized Therapeutics and Autonomous Research

  • Phage therapy and AI-designed therapeutics
  • Personalized cancer immunotherapy
  • AI scientists and autonomous research
  • AI epidemiology at scale

Important Information

Funder plans to award 20 projects at $25,000, 10 projects at $50,000, and 5 projects at $100,000 for 12 month projects.

Two cycles annually: Portal is not yet open, with funder saying, "Cycle 2 will open in Fall 2026".

Indirect costs are capped at 15%.

If you are considering an application in which you are the Principal Investigator, please ensure you meet PI eligibility requirements.

Process

This is a single step application process.

Interested parties should immediately complete the SPA Proposal Request Form to be assigned a research administrator.

The application will be managed by SPA, and you will work with your assigned research administrator.

All required information, in final form, needs to be submitted to SPA no later than five business days before submission deadline.