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2015 HHS SBIR/STTR Omnibus Grant  Solicitations Now Live
September 5, 2015 is Next Receipt Date
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released the 2015 SBIR and STTR Omnibus Grant Solicitations. These solicitations will be used by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). Note that STTR is only available at NIH.
The Omnibus Solicitations permit researcher-initiated topics that fall within the HHS mission to be submitted for funding consideration. The 2015 Program Descriptions and Research Topics document explains priority research areas for the agencies.. With any specific idea, you should speak directly with the appropriate HHS SBIR/STTR Program Manager to gauge their interest.
Additionally effective September 5, 2015, HHS SBIR/STTR grant applications will no longer be accepted on AIDS and AIDS-related Due Dates (May 7, September 7, and January 7), as two of the three new standard due dates are 2 days prior to the current AIDS due dates. Accordingly, any AIDS or AIDS-related HHS SBIR/STTR grant applications must also follow the new Standard Due Dates.
Other important information:
- The CDC will now accept applications from small businesses that are majority-owned by multiple venture capital operating companies, hedge funds, private equity firms, or any combination of these.
- This FOA can accept a Phase II or Phase IIB SBIR submission, where the previous award was an STTR Phase I or II respectively. Contact a program official to discuss this option.
- This FOA cannot accept a "Direct Phase II" SBIR submission. This option is only available in specific FOAs posted at the NIH Special Announcements for Small Business Research Opportunities website.
- The following NIH Institutes/Centers will NOT accept applications proposing a clinical trial through this FOA:
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (NIAMS)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
If your proposed work includes an NIH-defined clinical trial that would be assigned to one of these NIH Institutes/Centers, you should contact relevant program staff to discuss alternatives for support of those studies.
View SBIR PA-15-269 View STTR PA-15-270
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Other Funding Opportunities
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Worker Training Program
SBIR E-learning for HAZMAT and Emergency Response
RFA-ES-15-008 (R43/R44)
Letter of intent due: June 30, 2015
Application due: July 31, 2015
Application process resources
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Tools and Services for Designing Methodologically Rigorous Animal Studies
SBIR/STTR applications to create and develop tools and services that will guide and assist scientists to properly design animal studies. More information
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Open Design Tools for Speech Signal Processing (R43/R44)
Solicits SBIR grant applications to develop and support the use of portable acoustic signal processing tools that provide substantial amounts of computing power and reconfigurable real-time speech enhancement software that operates in real world environments. More information
NASA Two opportunities for public-private partnerships:
Tipping Point Technologies that enable or provide:
- Robotic, in-space manufacturing and assembly of spacecraft and space structures
- Low size, weight and power instruments for remote sensing applications
- Small spacecraft attitude determination and control sensors and actuators
- Small spacecraft propulsion systems
Submissions are due by July 23. More information
Emerging Space Technology System Capabilities seeks technologies in the areas of:
- Suborbital reusable and small satellite launch systems development
- Wireless power transfer development
- Thermal protection system materials and systems development
- Green propellant thruster technology qualification
- Small, affordable, high performance liquid propellant rocket engine development
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Onsite Training
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SBIR/STTR Commercialization Workshop-Granting vs. Contracting Agencies
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Proposal Prep for NIH
Proposal Prep for NSF
Webinars are 1-2 PM
July 15 - SBIR/STTR Step One: How to Get Registered
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USDA and EPA SBIR Solicitations Opening Soon
USDA Topic Areas:
> Forests/related resources
> Plant production/protection-
biology
> Animal production/
protection
> Air, water and soils
> Food science and nutrition
> Aquaculture
> Biofuels/Biobased Products
> Rural/community
development
> Plant production/protection -
engineering
> Small/medium-size farms
EPA Draft Topic Areas:
> Air and Climate
> Integrated Cookstove-
Heating-Electricity
Generation-Small Homes
> Manufacturing
> Toxic Chemicals
> Water
> Building Materials
> Homeland Security
More information
Closes June 18
HHS/NIH Omnibus
Close Sept. 5, 2015, Jan. 5 and April 5, 2016
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and/or busily preparing SBIR/STTR proposals for various agency solicitations that are or will be opening. In preparation for its upcoming SBIR solicitation, the USDA presented a webinar on program basics that included some good advice for those pursuing Phase I SBIR/STTR grants across all the participating agencies. 
