The Kenneth Rainin Foundation Announces 2012 Innovator Awards Program $100,000 Grants for... The Kenneth Rainin Foundation Announces 2012 Innovator Awards Program $100,000 Grants for Transformative IBD Research Projects 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced today its 2012 Innovator Awards Program for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The program supports "out-of-the-box" innovative research projects that are potentially transformative to the Foundation's efforts to diagnose, treat and/or cure IBD.

Applicant selection will primarily be based on the project's close alignment with the Innovator Awards Program's criteria.

The Program's key components for funding consideration include innovation, strong collaboration, scientific merit and a high potential for success as well as projects that, due to their innovative nature, may not be eligible for funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other more traditional sources.

About the Innovator Awards Program for IBD Research
The goal of the Innovator Awards Program is to encourage worldwide integrative cooperation across all disciplines to uncover the cause of the disease and create opportunities for novel approaches and alternative options for treatment in an effort to accomplish the Foundation's goal of no one suffering from IBD.

The Program is open to tenure track professors (or the equivalent) at all levels from any scientific discipline and from any non-profit research institutions worldwide.

About Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the gastrointestinal tract.

About the Foundation
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation (www.KRFoundation.org) is a private family foundation that funds inspiring and world-changing work.

The Scientific Advisory Board members are Averil Ma, M.D., Chair of the SAB and Kenneth Rainin Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director, Colitis and Crohn's Disease Center, UCSF; Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., David W. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology and Professor of Pathology and Microbiology, Skirball Institute Program of Molecular Pathogenesis, NYU Langone Medical Center; and Claudio Fiocchi, M.D., The Clifford and Jane Anthony Chair for Digestive Disease Research and Education, Department of Pathobiology, Lerner Research Institute at Cleveland Clinic.

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