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WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON

Enhancing testing for lead in children

The $1 million Lead Detect Prize seeks advanced point-of-care blood lead tests.

Meet the Phase 2 winners

Multiplying the impact of climate and nature efforts using modern AI

The AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge is a global $100 million initiative from the Bezos Earth Fund to protect our planet.

Learn about the Grand Challenge

Accelerating vaccine innovation

A $50 million Project NextGen competition to advance microneedle patch-based RNA vaccines.

Learn about the prize

Accelerating the development of Lyme disease diagnostics

How five innovator teams are meeting an urgent need for better Lyme disease testing.

Meet the Phase 2 winners

Designing future-ready K-12 education environments

The Learning Landscapes Challenge is a $2.2 million competition to accelerate infrastructure solutions in education.

Learn about the challenge

Developing education ecosystems to support national workforce priorities

How the Middle Grades CTE Accelerator empowered communities to deliver high-impact teacher professional development programs.

Read the case study

Advancing bioelectronic medicine

The Neuromod Prize is bridging the gap between early-stage research and clinical use, bringing innovative neuromodulation therapies to patients.

Meet the Phase 1 winners

Connecting students with space careers

U.S. Department of Education named eight winners of the Your Place in Space Challenge.

See the winning ideas

Building an ecosystem of support for innovation

An update on Mission Daybreak, VA’s multiyear initiative to support the development of promising suicide prevention innovations.

Read the update

Delivering a solver support program

Luminary Labs will design and produce Phase 4bc of MagQuest on behalf of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Read the announcement

Thought Leadership

Lab Report

News, analysis, and timely truth-telling.

Reducing friction for federal prizes

An open letter to the next administration.

Janna Gilbert named Partner at Luminary Labs

Luminary Labs establishes a partnership model to support continued growth and expansion.

Perspectives on pull mechanisms

What they are and why they matter: a pull mechanisms reading list.

Select Clients

We serve as thought partners to leaders tasked with going beyond business as usual. When it’s time to execute, we help make it real.

Corporate

  • AstraZeneca
  • Celgene
  • Janssen
  • Merck & Co., Inc.
  • Pfizer
  • Sanofi

Nonprofit

  • Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
  • Grand Victoria Foundation
  • Heritage Provider Network
  • Humanity United
  • Joyce Foundation
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Schmidt Futures
  • Siegel Family Endowment
  • TEDMED

Government

  • NASA
  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  • National Institutes of Health
  • U.S. Coast Guard
  • U.S. Department of Education
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • U.S. Food & Drug Administration