# Igniting the spark with Salk Innovation and Collaboration Grants Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/igniting-the-spark-with-salk-innovation-and-collaboration-grants Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/igniting-the-spark-with-salk-innovation-and-collaboration-grants.md Podcast: [Beyond Lab Walls | Salk Institute](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063) Published: 2026-04-29T19:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.salk.edu/beyond-lab-walls-podcast/ Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/f6581ef4-4950-4497-9ce2-674af8984163/InnovationCollaborationGrants-BLW2026_01.mp3?dest-id=4348308 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/episodes/igniting-the-spark-with-salk-innovation-and-collaboration-grants Duration seconds: 1178 ## Resource At Salk, we encourage our scientists to ask, what if? And when they do, our Innovation and Collaboration Grants program provides the seed funding they need to pursue their high-risk, high-reward questions. Hear how our Innovation and Collaboration Grant program got started, what discoveries it has enabled, and the what if questions Salk scientists Dannielle Engle and Axel Nimmerjahn are asking. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/episodes/igniting-the-spark-with-salk-innovation-and-collaboration-grants/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/igniting-the-spark-with-salk-innovation-and-collaboration-grants.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.