Grants & Investigator Support

Spark® Therapeutics reviews—and may fund—independent educational grants to educate healthcare professionals and patients. Spark Therapeutics also supports research that advances medical and scientific knowledge in the company’s therapies and fields of interest. Grants and support are subject to review and approval.

Spark Therapeutics will consider funding requests for the disease states we investigate. To learn more, please see our development pipelineExternal Link.

Independent Medical Education

Spark Therapeutics is proud to support grants for Independent Medical Education (IME) in an effort to advance medicine and healthcare by improving knowledge of the medical community.

IME is generally defined as education for healthcare professionals (HCPs) delivered by an independent educational provider, such as a community hospital, academic center, society/association, medical education, or communication company.


Visit SparkEducationalGrants.com to learn about grant availability, qualifying criteria and submission guidelines or to submit a proposal.

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Investigator-Initiated Research

In 2019, Spark Therapeutics established a program for competitive research grants that supports basic, translational, clinical and epidemiological research into the pathogenesis, complications, clinical outcomes & epidemiology of genetic diseases.

Spark Therapeutics may support Investigator Initiated Research (IIR) or Investigator Initiated Trials (IITs) through a grant for financial support. Additional consideration will be given to submissions that include a primary research objective of potentially addressing an unmet medical need. Spark does not provide operational support for IIR/IITs.


Have an IIR or IIT grant proposal? Submit it directly to Spark at IITs@sparktx.com.

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Requests for Proposals (RFPs)

Periodically, Spark Therapeutics may post RFPs for independent medical education here. To review RFP topics and submit proposals, please visit SparkEducationalGrants.com.

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