On January 17th, NIH, CDC, FDA, and ACF issued PHS 2014-02 Funding Opportunity Announcement (PA-14-071) for Small Business Innovation Research Grants (SBIR) along with a funding announcement for the Small Technology Transfer Research (STTR) program. The funding announcements invite U.S. small business concerns to submit SBIR and STTR grant applications.
The SBIR program established by law is tended to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small business to be able to meet Federal research and R&D needs, and increase the commercial application of Federally-supported research results.
The SBIR program has several phases. The first two phases are to use funds for proposed research efforts. Phase 2 is to continue the research or R&D efforts as initiated in Phase 1.
The STTR program was established to stimulate a partnership of ideas and technologies between innovative small business concerns and nonprofit research institutes to fund research along with R&D. The STTR program assists small business and research communities to be able to commercialize their innovative technology.
The budget for SBIR and STTR awards may not exceed $150,000 for Phase 1 awards and $1,000,000 or Phase 2 awards.
Go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbirsttr/2014-2_SBIR-STTR-topics.pdf for research topics for both the SBIR and STTR solicitations. For the SBIR solicitation, go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-071.html and for the STTR solicitation, go to http://grants.nih.gov/rants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-072.html.