Our friends & colleagues at BBC Etc. are offering this FREE, virtual, 3-day SBIR/STTR training event featuring SBIR/STTR program managers across all 11 agencies. Join in on agency-focused presentations, panel discussions and open Q&A. Attendees will learn agencies’ mission and tips for creating a successful proposal, have an opportunity to ask live questions of all […]
8/28/22 OLIN Labs is the research and development group at OLIN, a landscape architecture, planning, and urban design practice founded in 1976 with the mission to “create places that enhance life.” Dedicated to supporting community health and wellbeing and the healthy functioning of ecosystems, OLIN specializes in green infrastructure, resilient design, and landscape over structure. […]
8/18/22 Receives NIH Ph I STTR Grant to Utilize Novel Cardiac Targeting Peptides for Targeted Delivery of Amiodarone to the Heart for Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation This approach may minimize systemic toxicity associated with amiodarone The University of Pittsburgh and Vivasc Therapeutics Inc. has been awarded a PHI STTR grant by the NIH National Heart, […]
8/15/22 Advanced Optronics, Inc (AO) designs & manufactures implantable, smart sensors to improve patient outcomes in a wide array of medical applications for more minimally invasive surgery. AO’s first product is an integrated force and position sensor for cochlear implants (CIs). These sensors provide real-time feedback to surgeons during CI surgery to reduce surgical trauma […]
8/9/22 IPart is excited to announce the Phase I NSF SBIR award for $256,000 to MindTrace – a Pittsburgh-based company focused on pioneering a new analytic field called Mind Tracing™ that combines advances in brain imaging and cloud-based computing to generate predictions of sensory, cognitive and motor abilities all before the first incision. MindTrace’s software seamlessly […]
This Webinar is being offered by our colleagues at the North Carolina SBTDC. Join John Ujvari of the North Carolina SBTDC’s Technology Commercialization program and Elizabeth Dougherty of the USPTO virtually on September 8 from 12pm to 2pm to learn about the $4B+ SBIR/STTR R&D funding programs and intellectual property protection strategy and resources. Date: September […]
#SeedTheFuture Calling all innovators, inventors, and entrepreneurs who want to see your research change the world! 2022 America’s Seed Fund Week is a virtual, collaborative outreach effort connecting entrepreneurs working on advanced technologies and the organizations that support them to the country’s largest source of early-stage funding – the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and […]
*Please note that all links in this post may work intermittently, as NIST is updating many of the pages in preparation for the iEdison Launch. You can read more about the NIH eRA, NIST iEdison transition at the following NIH notice link NOT-OD-22-158 & Here – Preparing for the iEdison Transition Purpose To inform iEdison system […]
NASA SBIR Program NASA SBIR Ignite Solicitation is now open through September 1, 2022! This exciting new funding opportunity is a way for small businesses that have a commercially-viable technology idea to use NASA as a stepping stone in their path towards commercial success. With a greater emphasis on commercialization, SBIR Ignite funds U.S. early-stage, high-risk […]
7/11/22 Schedule: The Congressional authorization for the SBIR & STTR programs is set to expire on September 30, 2022. If Congress reauthorizes the SBIR/STTR programs prior to September 30, 2022, we anticipate following the schedule below for our FY 2023 Phase I Release 1 Funding Opportunity Announcement. Further information about the impact of a potential […]
The AFWERX SBIR/STTR Open Topic allows the small business to submit a proposal that has a clear Air Force or Space Force stakeholder need addressed. As the small business essentially writes the topic, it is imperative that there is a deep understanding of the needs of the agency stakeholder. The number 1 AFWERX Evaluation Criteria is […]
6/30/22 Co-Founder Olivia Weinstein IPart is excited to announce the awarding of a $5k MicroVoucher to The Pursuit By You, also a Ben Franklin Central & Northern (BFTP CNP) portfolio client – for their SBIR Phase I submission to the NSF. Their proposed project innovation is focused on developing specific AI-enhanced mobile application(s) that teach […]
