Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grants - Phase I (R41)
To support cooperative R&D projects between small business concerns and research institutions, limited in time and amount, to establish the technical merit and feasibility of ideas that have potential for commercialization. Awards are made to small business concerns only.
Purpose
The focus of a Phase 1 award is on the feasibility, technical merit, and commercial potential of the research project.
Organization Eligibility
Only United States small business concerns are eligible to submit applications to SBIR and STTR funding opportunities. Collaborating research institutions (e.g., universities) are subcontractors to the small businesses and may not apply as applicants. See SEED: Eligibility Criteria.
Project Director/ Principal Investigator (PD/PI) Eligibility
PD/PI must be employed by either the partnering research institution or small business.
Award Information
- Funding Instrument: Grant
- Funding Category: Small Business
- Budget Mechanism Code: SB - Small Business
Total funding support (direct costs, indirect costs, fee) normally may not exceed the SBA budget guidelines found at to SEED: Understanding SBIR and STTR.
Application and Submission Information
Parent Announcements
R41 Parent Announcements are available.
Parent announcements are broad funding opportunities that applicants can use to submit investigator-initiated applications for a range of popular programs. They do not specify any particular area of scientific interest. They simply provide the standard forms and instructions needed to apply.
Not all NIH institutes and centers participate on all parent announcements. Check the participating organization in the funding opportunity before applying.
After identifying a funding opportunity, follow guidance in the How to Apply – Application Guide including any SBIR/STTR (B) instruction call-outs, except where instructed to do otherwise in the funding opportunity or related notices.
Due Dates
The Key Dates section of funding opportunities lists specific due dates. Many opportunities indicate Standard Due Dates apply.
Standard Application Due Dates (when applicable) | Review and Award Cycles | ||||
New | Renewal, Resubmission, Revision as Allowed |
AIDS and AIDS Related Grant Applications |
Scientific Merit Review | Advisory Council Review |
Earliest Start Date |
Participating Funding Organizations
Each funding opportunity specifies the participating organizations. Applications must fit within the mission of at least one participating funding organization and meet all opportunity-specific requirements.
The following funding organizations participate on at least one active funding opportunity.
- Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
- National Eye Institute (NEI)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)
- Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO)
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