The 2025 Innovator Awards grantee projects explore new ways to reduce inflammation and restore gut health, targeted treatment options with fewer side effects and the chance for lasting healing, and the gut-brain connection.

The 2025 Innovator Awards grantee projects explore new ways to reduce inflammation and restore gut health, targeted treatment options with fewer side effects and the chance for lasting healing, and the gut-brain connection.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation invites Letters of Inquiry for our Innovator Awards Program from August 15 through September 30, 2025.
We’ve awarded over $4 million through our Innovator Awards Program, which supports individual and collaborative research projects that have the potential to improve the prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation invites Letters of Inquiry for our Innovator Awards Program from August 1 through September 30, 2024.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation has awarded $4.15 million through our Innovator Awards Program.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation invites Letters of Inquiry for our Innovator Awards Program from August 1 through September 30, 2023.
Grantees are testing novel ideas from bright light therapy to diet and the gut-brain connection in the hopes of discovering new ways to reduce the risk of flare-ups and improve the lives of patients with IBD.