Student Engagement Resources

In addition to venture development resources within the Institute for Applied Life Sciences, our team encourages and facilitates access to venture development resources that can add value and move a new venture toward scalability and investment readiness.

Undergraduate Resources

• Career Services
  1. UMass Amherst Career Services
  2. College of Natural Sciences (CNS)
  3. College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS)
  4. College of Engineering
  5. College of Nursing
  6. School of Public Health & Health Sciences (SPHHS)

Graduate Resources

• UMass Amherst Career Services
• Graduate School Office of Professional Development
• UMass I-Corps

Beyond the Campus

• Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (advice, connections)
• Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (grants for internships)
• Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (grants for internships)
• Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
• NSF I-Corps (grants for customer discovery, connections)
• SBIR/STTR (grants for commercialization research)
• Valley Venture Mentors (connections, mentor ship program, accelerator, competition)
• VentureWell (grants for student teams, connections)