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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI)

Notice Number: NOT-OD-23-179

Encouraging Small Businesses to Partner with Resource-Limited Institutions (RLIs) on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Applications

 

The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to encourage small businesses to partner with institutions of special interest, as defined below, on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program applications.  For purposes of this NOSI, these institutions of special interest will be referred to as Resource-Limited Institutions (RLIs).  


Institutions of Special Interest
This NOSI is applicable to Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education that meet the criteria below and have not been recent recipients of substantial NIH funding.  A “partnering” research institution of special interest is a domestic institution located in the United States and its territories which:

  1. has received less than $25 million dollars per year (total costs) from NIH Research Project Grants (RPGs) in each of the preceding two fiscal years, calculated using NIH RePORTER; and
  2. has a documented historical and current mission to educate students from any of the populations that have been identified as underrepresented in biomedical research as defined by the National Science Foundation (NSF), see Featured Report | 2023   (i.e., African Americans or Blacks, Hispanic or Latino Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, U.S. Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities) or (1) has a documented historical record of  recruiting, training and/or educating, and graduating underrepresented students as defined by NSF (see above), which has resulted in increasing the institution's contribution to the national pool of graduates from underrepresented backgrounds who pursue biomedical research careers, and (2) for institutions that deliver health care services, has a document record of providing clinical services to medically underserved communities.

 

Institutions meeting these criteria may include, but are not limited to, certain Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education of the following types:

  • Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)
  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
  • Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs)
  • Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
  • Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
  • Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)

 

Please direct all inquiries to the Scientific/Research, Peer Review, and Financial/Grants Management contacts in Section VII of the listed notice of funding opportunity.

Contact NIH SEED (Small Business Education and Entrepreneurial Development) at SEEDinfo@nih.gov.

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