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Researchers: Strengthen Your Research and Your Funding
The Auster Center's primary mission is to help Tufts researchers translate their work—and to support the funding that makes that translation possible. Whether you are writing your next proposal, looking for a collaborator, or ready to pursue commercialization, we are here before, during, and after.
Ways to engage:
Industry and Government: Collaborate With Tufts Research
The Auster Center connects organizations with Tufts researchers working at the frontier of applied innovation. Whether you are looking for sponsored research, a development partner, talent, or a direct path to licensing Tufts technology, we can help you find the right connection.
Ways to engage:
- Sponsored Research
- Broader Impacts Collaboration
- Licensing Tufts Technology
- Talent and Student Engagement
- Initiative Partnership
Students: Build Applied Innovation Experience
The Auster Center offers Tufts students hands-on experience at the intersection of research, translation, and real-world impact—working alongside faculty, Fellows, and industry collaborators on challenges that matter.
Ways to engage:
- NSF I-Corps
- Innovate 2 Impact
- Research and Fellow Opportunities
- Auster-Tisch Scholar Program
Supporters and Foundations: Invest in Applied Innovation at Tufts
The Auster Center offers supporters and foundations meaningful opportunities to shape applied innovation at one of the world's leading research universities. Your investment can carry your name and your values into the work—into the researchers who lead it, the students it trains, and the impact it creates.
Ways to engage:
- Name an Initiative
- Support an Active Initiative
- Support the Fellows Program
- Endow a Student Fellowship