Acquire $850,000 or more through the Federal SBIR/STTR Programs for Innovative Technology-Based R&D
Attend one or both of these FREE special, sessions to learn about Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) federal research and development grants.
- Are you seeking federal funding to support innovative R&D that could be commercialized?
- Have you heard about SBIR/STTR and want to learn more?
- Are you planning to submit an SBIR/STTR proposal?
Attend one or both of these FREE sessions
Introduction to the SBIR/STTR Federal Grants Program
Thursday, June 7th, 2012; 8:30-9:45 am
Preparing to write an SBIR or STTR federal research grant
Thursday, June 7th, 2012; 10:00 am to 12:30 pm
The sessions are free, but you must register to attend. Space is limited!
REGISTER: https://secure.wisconsinsbdc.org/madisonSBIR/
Benefits of SBIR/STTR Federal R&D Funds
- $2 billion in federal grants, contracts and research money set aside for small businesses.
- 11 federal agencies participate in SBIR and 5 agencies in STTR.
- For innovative, high-risk, high-return R&D efforts with strong business commercialization potential.
- Multi-stage research grants can take a project from concept to commercialization.
- Non-dilutive capital for research and product development.
- Increases chances of favorable Angel and VC investment.
Who will benefit from these classes?
- Small, technically-oriented companies that are built around innovation.
- Individual researchers, doctors, professors, or engineers who want to start a company and have promising new technology that could be commercialized.
What do these grants support?
- High-risk research with a chance of high payoff/strong business commercialization potential.
- Research and development expenses.
- Overhead and salaries of key personnel.
Session One: Introduction to SBIR and STTR - federal grants programs
If you want to win a share of the $2 billion of federal research money, you need to meet the agency requirements before writing your proposal.
- Introduction to the federal programs.
- Finding the right Federal Grant topic for your company.
- Scoping the project.
- Forming a winning team.
- Finding help with budget, consultant and sub-contractor issues.
Session Two: Preparing to write an SBIR or STTR federal research grant
- NIH Registration Processes (EIN, DUNS, CCR, grants.gov, eRA Commons)
- Planning your proposal
- Business issues
- Review criteria
- Timelines/project management
- Preparing the Proposal Application
- Forms (the application package)
- Attachments
- “Grantsmanship”
- Penultimate polishing (review criteria met?)
Register here for one or both sessions: https://secure.wisconsinsbdc.org/madisonSBIR/
The sessions are free, but you must register to attend. Space is limited!
Instructors
Cheryl Vickroy
Ms. Cheryl Vickroy, Wisconsin Entrepreneur’s Network Southwest Regional Director, has over 25 years of business management experience in a variety of industries. Since 2002 she has owned and operated a boutique consulting firm focused on the commercialization of technology, planning, marketing and financing. Her practice has served a variety of emerging technologies in the biotechnology, software development and clean energy industries. Ms. Vickroy has aided clients in obtaining over $20M in funding through the SBIR, STTR and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant programs. Ms. Vickroy has also held leadership positions in four local start-up firms. She currently serves as an Adjunct Faculty member in the Masters in Biotechnology program at the UW-Madison. Prior to 2002, Vickroy served for 15 years as the Regional Manager of a national association. She holds a BBA in Marketing from the UW-Milwaukee and a dual MBA in Operations and Management and Human Resources from the Wisconsin School of Business at the UW-Madison.
Katharine A. (Kathy) Muirhead, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer of SciGro, Inc., earned a B.S in Chemistry from UW-Madison, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She then did post-doctoral research in biochemistry, tumor biology and analytical cytometry and currently holds an adjunct Professorship in the Department of Bioscience Technologies at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. After 6 years on the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the University of Rochester School Of Medicine she left academic medicine to join the pharmaceutical industry, where she has over 25 years of senior level experience, including discovery research, technology transfer and business development positions in both big pharma and startup settings. In 1996 Dr. Muirhead and Dr. Betsy Ohlsson-Wilhelm co-founded SciGro, a biomedical consultancy that specializes in helping early stage companies translate scientific discoveries and emerging technologies into successful drugs, diagnostics, and medical devices. SciGro services include: assistance with preparation or pre-review of SBIR and STTR grant proposals; management of research reagent lines for small or virtual companies; technology assessment; and scientific due diligence. SciGro principals have over 40 years of combined experience as applicants, recipients and reviewers of a variety of grants including SBIRs and STTRs, and have helped clients obtain ~$18 million in this type of non-dilutive seed funding.
The sessions are free, but you must register to attend. Space is limited!
REGISTER: https://secure.wisconsinsbdc.org/madisonSBIR/
