10 new technologies tackling urgent challenges from autoimmune disease to cancer win funding from Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator.

Three research projects that address urgent societal challenges — cardiovascular health, rising data demands, and the future of quantum computation — have been named Harvard Grid Accelerator awardees and will receive funding, mentorship, and venture development.

Harvard Senior Associate Provost and Chief Technology Development Officer Isaac Kohlberg and Harvard Business School Professor Robert Huckman discuss the risk to the innovation ecosystem and economy with recent funding cuts to academic research.

With funding and support from the Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund, researchers will pursue green jet fuel, cleaner chemicals, sustainable packaging, and carbon storage.