Funding Opportunity To Create Academic Entrepreneurship Hubs

Funding Opportunity To Create Academic Entrepreneurship Hubs

NIH has reissued their Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (REACH Program). The purpose of the program is to help realize unique scientific advances of biomedical discoveries into commercially viable diagnostics, devices, therapeutics, and tools that improve patient care and health. The new REACH Hubs are intended to advance prior lessons learned from previous REACH Hub awardees to position them to obtain future funding such as in the private sector in the form of viable start-up companies or a licensing opportunity. Although not required, proposals including a collaboration with NIGMS’ Regional Technology Transfer Accelerator Hubs for IDeA States for scalable skills development strategies will be viewed as a strength. Further, it is anticipated that the Hub will have additional non-federal funding identified at the time of application that can supplement the federal award for product definition studies. Applications are due March 20, 2019 with letter of intent due 30 days prior to submission. The NIH will host a free pre-submission webinar on January 23, 2019 at 1pm ET. Please register for the REACH Pre-Submission Webinar on Jan 23, 2019 1:00 PM EST at:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/432135952668370946

[From NIAID Funding News 01.09.2019]