FAQs

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is collaborating with Deerfield, an investment firm dedicated to advancing healthcare, to accelerate the translation of research in Illinois faculty laboratories into clinical therapeutics. Alma Therapeutics is a Deerfield company that will support Illinois’ innovative translational research and leverage Deerfield’s experience in accelerating state-of-the-art drug development.

Principal Investigators whose full-time employer is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign or who have a faculty appointment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and are subject to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s policies regarding the conduct of research and ownership of intellectual property.

Please reach out to Emilio Cardenas, Managing Director of Alma Therapeutics, at emiliolc@illinois.edu.

No – We welcome applications from all therapeutic areas.