Key Dates: Letters of Intent Due: August 3, 2009
Application Due: September 1, 2009 at 5 p.m. (local time of the applicant institution/organization)
Anticipated Start Date: April 2010

Program Information: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.

Grant Information: This grant is seeking applications from small business concerns that propose to accelerate innovation through high risk, high reward research and development that has commercial potential and is relevant to the mission of the NIH. Solicited are applications for support for projects that have the potential to generate high impact results (e.g., products, processes or services) and/or innovative research applications, research tools, techniques, devices, inventions, or methodologies. The outcomes of the research supported should have potential to lead to products that will improve public health and create significant value and economic stimulus. The NIH solicits early-stage ideas that promise to lead to major leaps forward in capabilities important to serving the mission of NIH rather than incremental improvements of existing technologies. In accord with the funding priority of this initiative to attract applicants without a history of Small Business Innovation Research or Small Business Technology Transfer support from NIH, the focus of the projects solicited by this FOA is on early stage technology development.

For More Information: View the full  Funding Opportunity Announcement  for program and application information.