Riccio Digital Medicine and Health Technology Initiative

Digital health has matured over the past 20 years, with wearable devices reaching mainstream adoption, remote monitoring becoming routine clinical practice, and thousands of studies emphasizing the transformative impact these approaches can have on human health. Clinical-grade sensing is migrating from the clinic to the home, opening access to patient populations and information that are otherwise siloed. Importantly, development of these digital health technologies is accelerating at a rapid, global pace.

The goal of the Riccio Digital Medicine and Health Technology Initiative is to leverage the strengths of our multi-campus system to become a driver for where these technologies are heading and to provide thought leadership on shaping the future of digital medicine and health technology. 

A key enabling feature of this Initiative is pilot funding. Individual project awards (up to $100,000 for 12 months) will be made on a peer-reviewed, competitive basis to enable investigators to assemble transdisciplinary teams and initiate projects that will garner external funding.

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Please email your application as a single attachment (Word or PDF) to: ccts@umassmed.edu on or before Friday July 10, 2026 by 5:00 PM EDT

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