1. It's good to see you are seeking private funding. Most lying, sack of shit scientists take government funds for research they never intend to put much effort into and when someone blows the whistle on them they get that person forced into early retirement. Private funding puts pressure on the investigators to actually do the work.

2. Get an academic degree with this. In other words, you have academic degrees already, go for a PhD yourself and use IHXENs in your dissertation. (And don't give me any crap about being too old to go back to school.)