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Innovation Academic Incubator

Take your idea from exploration to implementation or commercialization

Jump ARCHES: (Spring 2026)
Opens Feb 1 2026 12:00 AM (CST)
Deadline Apr 10 2026 05:00 PM (CDT)
$100,000
Description


The Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (Jump ARCHES) program is a strategic partnership with the University of Illinois Grainger Health Care Engineering Systems Center (HCESC) that partners teams of clinicians and engineers working together to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs.

Those applying for grants are developing new tools, techniques and devices to enhance medical simulation and education as well as for clinical use and treatment. This endowed fund supports collaborative efforts between engineers and health care providers at OSF HealthCare and University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria as they work to solve health care challenges through innovative solutions.

These teams work together and use the unique environment of Jump to hypothesize, test and redesign tools, techniques and processes being used by caregivers every day.

If you are looking for a collaborator, please fill out this form. Matching for the current RFP will close 10 days prior to close date on March 25, 2025.

  1. Innovation RFP Call
  2. Translational Research Call

Official Statement on Resident and Fellow Participation in IAI

Find RFP instructions and questions here.

Find the budget template here.

Apply

Jump ARCHES: (Spring 2026)



The Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (Jump ARCHES) program is a strategic partnership with the University of Illinois Grainger Health Care Engineering Systems Center (HCESC) that partners teams of clinicians and engineers working together to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs.

Those applying for grants are developing new tools, techniques and devices to enhance medical simulation and education as well as for clinical use and treatment. This endowed fund supports collaborative efforts between engineers and health care providers at OSF HealthCare and University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria as they work to solve health care challenges through innovative solutions.

These teams work together and use the unique environment of Jump to hypothesize, test and redesign tools, techniques and processes being used by caregivers every day.

If you are looking for a collaborator, please fill out this form. Matching for the current RFP will close 10 days prior to close date on March 25, 2025.

  1. Innovation RFP Call
  2. Translational Research Call

Official Statement on Resident and Fellow Participation in IAI

Find RFP instructions and questions here.

Find the budget template here.

Value

$100,000

Apply
Opens
Feb 1 2026 12:00 AM (CST)
Deadline
Apr 10 2026 05:00 PM (CDT)