Tisch Mega Grants Incubator is a biennial resource program designed to transform ambitious ideas into impactful, large-scale research projects.

The Mega Grants Incubator at Tisch School of the Arts is open to all full-time faculty members, whether your concept is fully-formed or in early, nascent stages. The incubator provides seed funding ranging from $500 to $8,000 for the development of promising ideas that could attract substantial external funding of $100,000 to $1M or more.

Over a two-year period, participants receive financial support and join a small cohort of peers receiving ongoing guidance in developing their projects. The incubator fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and helps researchers refine their ideas, with the ultimate goal of creating competitive proposals for large-scale, externally funded research initiatives.

Please join Tisch Creative Research in congratulating Tisch faculty members Ian Harnarine, Giada Matteini, Shindy Melanie Johnson and Scott Miller on their successful applications to the 2024-2025 Tisch Mega Grants Incubator! Chosen by a peer review panel, this faculty cohort will spend the next two years transforming their ambitious ideas into competitive funding proposals for impactful, large-scale research projects appropriate for six and seven-figure external funding opportunities.

Giada's Mega Grants Incubator Project, SOMATIC REHABILITATION PROGRAM FOR VIOLENT OFFENDERS, intersects clinical studies, sociology, anthropology, forensic psychology, and social policy with the creative arts and investigates ways to innovate the current model of gender-based prevention & advancement using somatic modalities.