SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH
Grant Opportunity
Congress Extends SBIR/STTR Programs Through September 30, 2011
GrantProse, Inc. is prepared to help you apply for grants available for small business. The US Small Business Administration administers Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants. SBIR and STTR grants are awarded for research or research and development programs that have the potential for commercialization.
SBIR grant opportunity available in Genomics - August 2, 2011 deadline!
Technology Development for High-Throughput Functional Genomics
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-11-015.html
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is requesting proposals for Technology Development for High-Throughput Function Genomics under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) granting mechanism. Specifically, the program solicits grant applications to develop new and improved technologies for the efficient, comprehensive and high-throughput identification, validation and characterization of all types of sequence-based functional elements in eukaryotic genomes. This solicitation continues a technology development effort initiated in 2003 as part of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project.
The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks applications to develop high-throughput, genome-wide experimental methods for finding functional elements. The methods should reduce cost and/or sample size while maintaining or improving accuracy. Applications to develop high-throughput experimental methods for biological validation and characterization or computational methods to characterize functional elements will also be accepted. Novel and innovative technologies to achieve high-throughput, genome-wide identification of any type of sequence-encoded functional elements or to increase throughput of biological validation assays are sought.
New (Phase I) and Renewal (Phase II) applications will be accepted. Phase I awards normally may not exceed $100,000 over a 6 month period. Phase II awards may not exceed $1,000,000 over a 2 year period.
Additional SBIR solicitations can be seen at http://www.sbir.gov/solicitations/. Contact Dr. Bill Carruthers at GrantProse to discuss how GrantProse can assist you to apply for this or other SBIR opportunities ([email protected], 919.414.5861).