Round 3: results announced
In September 2023, in collaboration with Hevolution and Rosenkranz Foundations, we concluded our Round 3 of Impetus funding. This year we got more applications than in all the previous rounds combined. In under 2 month since launch our team read 1050 applications and committed to funding 34 of them, giving out close to $10M.
770 of the applicants were applying to Impetus for the first time.
368 of all the proposals came from labs that have never worked on aging before and were looking to transition into the field.
The acceptance rate by roles was:
3.4% for professors (majority of these being Assistant Professors),
3.3% for postdocs,
2.3% for graduate students,
and 2.9% for all the roles (non-profits and independent applicants).
12 of the 34 of projects we funded came from labs that are new to aging space or haven’t worked on aging projects before.
As evident by these numbers, competition in Round 3 was much higher than before and we had to reject many scientifically sound projects. We congratulate all the awardees on this outstanding achievement!
