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Melissa Li, Ph.D.

Program Director
SBIR Development Center
National Cancer Institute
melissa.li@nih.gov

Dr. Melissa Li is a Program Director at the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Development Center at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Li manages a portfolio of small businesses that are developing innovative cancer therapeutics, diagnostics, and research tools. Additionally, she focuses on developing programs and initiatives that promote access to small business funding for entrepreneurs developing innovative cancer technologies. Currently, she leads the NCI’s efforts on the NCI SBIR/STTR Training and Entrepreneurship Program (STEP), which provides Phase I SBIR/STTR application preparation support and entrepreneurial training to small businesses.
 
Prior to joining the NCI SBIR Development Center, Dr. Li was a scientific writer with positions as a proposal writer at a large CRO and as a scientific consultant and grant writer for small businesses, raising over $15 million in federal funding. Dr. Li's scientific training focused on molecular mechanisms of noncoding RNAs in the context of lung cancer during her postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH and in the context of metabolic stress during her Ph.D. in molecular cell biology at Washington University in St. Louis. 

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