Comparing score tables for two SBIR Phase I grants provides a grantsmanship lesson not to forget: The advice in your Summary Statement isn’t necessarily everything you need to know to revise your grant and win You probably know every NIH SBIR grant application is reviewed by three people who use a 9-point scale to grade … Read more
There may still be options to win a grant for part or all of your research idea. Not so long ago NIH allowed you to try three times to win a SBIR grant with the same research idea. Now you can only try twice. Two strikes and you’re out. This is one of several big … Read more
The power of post-Phase II SBIR grants There’s a special place in NIH’s heart for SBIR research to develop drugs, medical devices and other products that require FDA approval. For these capital intensive products where time horizons for market entry are long, many NIH institutes offer extra millions and extra years of SBIR grant support … Read more
Here are links to 21 topics related to winning NIH SBIR grants. If you’re serious about applying for NIH SBIR grants, you can’t go wrong by spending a day studying NIH’s many web pages on the subject. NIH has so many SBIR web pages, however, that it’s easy to get lost and overlook something important. … Read more
It’s not nearly as bad as you think. In July, 2012 Matthew Portnoy, NIH’s SBIR grants coordinator, reported that the win rate for SBIR Phase I grants has dropped to 1 in 10 or maybe 1 in 15 applications. The reason is more companies fighting for a share of NIH’s $2.3 billion SBIR research budget. … Read more
I’ve run across a SBIR Phase I grant abstract so superbly organized and cleverly persuasive I’d like to show it to you. Below is the abstract of Jim Stice of Twin Star Medical in St. Paul, Minnesota. I found it in the NIH RePORTER, NIH’s public database of information about funded grants. Stice’s grant, “Hollow … Read more