Hear from a NIH Program Manager About New Funding Opportunities for Small Businesses and Tips for Applying!
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), along with partnering NIH institutes and centers, has funding opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs who propose developing products or services to improve health access or reduce health disparities in NIH-designated populations experiencing health disparities.
This webinar will feature a NIMHD Program Manager who will provide a brief overview on the general NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs, as well as tips for writing a program abstract for your application and discussing your concept with program officers.
The webinar will highlight a new SBIR opportunity – Innovations for Healthy Living: Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities, due on June 10, 2025. This opportunity features updates from prior healthy innovations opportunities. Notably, people living with disabilities are now included as part of the NIH-designated health disparities population. Application responsiveness now includes proposals centered on:
- Digital therapeutics and clinical trial technologies (e.g., engagement, biobanking/specimens, decentralized clinical trials and infrastructure).
- Educating prospective social entrepreneurs on transitioning technologies from the bench to the bedside for expanding access.
- Utilizing NIH data systems, such as ScHARe (Science Collaborative for Health Disparities and Artificial intelligence bias REduction), the All of Us Research Hub, or other data services and NIH data repositories.
- Utilizing cutting-edge digital health care and research technologies and approaches, such as digital therapeutics, decentralized and digital clinical trials, and remote devices for providing health care and engaging, recruiting, and retaining participants from increasing access.