You’ve Submitted Your NIH SBIR/STTR Proposal. What Happens Now?

NIH

So you survived electronic submission. Your proposal made it to NIH. You saw your beautifully compiled proposal in your NIH eRA Commons account. What happens now? First, your application will now pass to NIH’s Center for Scientific Review where it will be...

Think Twice About Your NIH SBIR/STTR Project Title

NIH

You may already have a title for your SBIR/STTR project, but I’d like to suggest that you take another look at what you have, and make sure that it really tells the full story of your project. The title of your project is important and when your project is funded you...

NIH Pre-Submission Checklist

NIH, SBIR registrations, SBIR related

What do you need to do before you submit a proposal to NIH for the January 5, 2021 deadline. 1.Complete six registrations before submitting your application There is more to a NIH SBIR/STTR than the research. The registration process alone may take six to eight weeks,...

The NIH Sept. 5 Deadline Nears: Time to Check Your Registrations

NIH, SBIR registrations, SBIR related

The NIH advises that it can take up to six weeks to complete all of the registrations necessary to submit your SBIR/STTR proposal through Grants.gov to the NIH. If you haven’t already completed this process for a September submission, you should start now. Be...

Think (again) about Your NIH SBIR/STTR Application Title

SBIR/STTR Application Titles

You may have already written the title of your SBIR/STTR Project, but now is a good time to take another look at what you have, and make sure that it really tells the story of your project. The title of your project is important and if you’re funded you will be living...

How do I know if NIH is interested in funding my project?

Federal Funding, SBIR Contracts, SBIR Grants, SBIR related

The Sept. 5 deadline has passed but Jan. 5 now looms, so exactly how do you go about assessing if your project will interest the National Institutes of Health (NIH)? The NIH is one of the ‘easier’ federal agencies to apply to because every year it issues an Omnibus...

Be kind to your SBIR/STTR proposal reviewer; formatting matters

SBIR Formatting

While quality content and impactful science is the basis of a strong SBIR/STTR proposal, one of your primary goals in putting your proposal together is making it easy for the reviewer to read. You want the reviewers reading your proposal to be happy, yes, happy. Happy...

Writing your NIH SBIR/STTR Specific Aims: Impact is Key!

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We have found that the best first step in developing an SBIR/STTR proposal is to draft the one-page Specific Aims document. This section is the most important page in your proposal. In it you should state concisely the goals of the proposed research and summarize the...