NIH Small Business Technology Transfer Grant
Funds early feasibility work through late-stage R&D for a US small business formally partnered with a nonprofit research institution.
A small company and a university lab often hold different halves of the same good idea — one can build a product, the other can push the underlying science.
This is NIH's standing Small Business Technology Transfer door for that pairing. It supports feasibility studies first, then the research and development a promising result needs to become a commercial product, across every participating NIH …
Two-phase Small Business Technology Transfer funding — feasibility studies followed by research and development — for a United States small business concern formally partnered with a nonprofit research institution, developing a shared scientific innovation into a commercial product across the National Institutes of Health, CDC and FDA missions. Clinical trials are optional.
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