HSSA Makes Two Grant Awards Totaling $499,821

HSSA is pleased to share about our most recent recipients of matching grants for bioscience based economic development: Medcurity and Photon Biosciences.

This is HSSA’s first award to Medcurity who received $200,000 matching an investment from a qualified investor. Medcurity’s award will use their award to incorporate generative artificial intelligence capabilities into their software, already leading to more efficient, accurate, and timely security risk management.

This is HSSA’s fourth award to Photon Biosciences who relocated from Pullman to Spokane to take advantage of matching grants available through HSSA. The award of $299,812 matches a grant from the National Institute of Health and continues their work to introduce a comprehensive suite of services designed to revolutionize protein structure determination through Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM), Cryo-Electron Tomography (Cryo-ET), and Protein Crystallography.

“HSSA has grown and consistently receives high quality grant proposals from exciting innovators here in Spokane County and beyond. We look forward to seeing the progress at both Medcurity and Photon Biosciences” said HSSA Executive Director Erin Williams Hueter.