When an applicant comes to me for advising, one of the first questions I have is about their ESI expiration, so that we can map out a long-term strategy to maximize this funding advantage, if relevant. For early-career biomedical researchers, few designations carry as much practical weight as the NIH Early Stage Investigator (ESI) status. […]
So you’ve invented a new health technology, and you want to commercialize it by starting a for-profit company. How do you fund this early spinout? Non-dilutive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a great way to start. Is This Post for Me? The applicants
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Highlighted Topics are a way for an Institute or Center (IC) to communicate with applicants about an area of increased funding priority. A proposed project’s alignment with one definitely should be called out in key areas of the application. NIH is a bit unique among federal funders in the United States in that the vast
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