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Network
Engage with world-class leaders, experts and entrepreneurs to advance health.
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Cure Xchange Challenge
The Cure Xchange Challenge focuses on driving innovations that collaboratively span sectors, disciplines and geographies to solve for a specific healthcare need. The contest is open to individuals and teams with early stage concepts, prototypes or pilots that will transform our health.
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XSeed Award
The XSeed Award provides critical funding to translate scientific discoveries into commercially successful drug therapies. The 2024 XSeed awards will provide two teams up to $250,000 for New York City minority- and women-led life science and healthcare startups working on novel drug development projects. Additionally, the winning teams will join the ecosystem of Cure.®, and teams will receive peer-learning and office hours with investors, entrepreneurs and business experts.