For convenience, we have decided to allow IPart Award Recipients to submit their reimbursement materials electronically.

Reimbursement Packet Materials are e-mailed out to each IPart Award Recipient upon the decision of the Funding Committee by Lytmos GROUP, Inc. All documentation necessary to receive the IPart award is contained in and attached to these e-mails.

The changes made to MG, MV and FMA reimbursement documents indicates that the client may submit their reimbursement packet to Kelly S. Wylam in totality, electronically, as long as all attachments are fully legible. If any attachments are illegible, the packet will need to be mailed conventionally, as was standard operating procedure.

Packets may not be submitted partially in electronic form and partially via conventional mail.

Processing and payment will only occur if COMPLETE packets are submitted via either means.

All agreements must be signed and dated and scanned into a PDF format for processing/payment if submitted electronically.

Important changes made to the NIH federal application process and format will be reviewed in this training session.

Don’t miss this great opportunity!  Workshop is free to eligible participants.
Deadline for Application is Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

Please see the flyer here and the full program description here.  If you have any questions,
contact Dr. Uwe Winzen uwinzen@plsg.com or at (412) 770-1647.

Carmell Therapeutics
President Alan West has the following to say about the SBIR Advance Training offered by PLSG and supported by the IPart:

The SBIR Advance program is a terrific asset for early stage life sciences companies in western Pennsylvania and statewide.  Carmell Therapeutics was awarded an SBIR grant from NIH on its very first try, largely as a result of assistance from the PLSG SBIR Advance program.  Their workshop in preparing companies for writing, editing, and submitting grant proposals is not only “on the mark”, it also is free to life sciences companies!  After Carmell was awarded the NIH grant, the SBIR Advance experts continued to help educate the company on how to put systems in place and account for and draw-down the money, ensuring we remain in compliance.  It is an incredibly valuable program that surpasses all expectations, and I have and will highly recommend it to any entrepreneur or small company.

Clients are strongly encouraged to begin working with their IPart Sponsor as early as possible! Click here for more information about current solicitations.

Open Solicitations

Upcoming Solicitations*

* Dates are subject to change
** Release dates are subject to SBIR Reauthorization

Notes:

1.  The MicroVoucher Program was initiated in 2007 and no awards under this program were made prior to
that time.

2.  Hyperlinks to company websites are provided when they exist.  Companies without hyperlinks did not
have a formal web presence at the time of list compilation.

MicroGrant Awardees – 2009

MicroVoucher Awardees – 2009

MicroGrant Awardees – 2008

MicroVoucher Awardees – 2008

MicroGrant Awardees – 2007

MicroVoucher Awardees – 2007

MicroGrant Awardees – 2006

MicroGrant Awardees – 2005

MicroGrant Awardees – 2004

MicroGrant Awardees – 2003

Federal Marketing Assistance (FMA) Awardees 2005-2009

IPart Federal Awardees 2003-2008

Plan ahead and submit your proposal early to avoid the risk of website inaccessibility due to heavy usage on the final day.

IPart Pre-Proposal Submission Deadline for this solicitation is Wednesday, May 26, 2010.

Technical Q&A through SITIS

Once DoD begins accepting proposals on May 19, no further direct contact between proposers and topic authors is allowed, but proposers may submit written questions through the SBIR Interactive Topic Information System (SITIS), in which the questioner and respondent remain anonymous and all questions and answers are posted electronically for general viewing. SITIS closes to new questions on June 9, 2010. All questions and answers will be posted up to June 23, 2010. All proposers are advised to monitor SITIS at http://www.dodsbir.net/sitis during the solicitation period for questions and answers and other information relevant to the topic under which they are proposing.

Commercialization Update Effort

Please note that the definition of 3rd Party Revenue (previously 3rd Party Sales) has been updated. For more information, see Guidance for Completing the Company Commercialization Report: Instructions and Definitions on the Company Commercialization section of the DoD Submission website.

In order to properly evaluate your firm’s commercialization efforts, as well as to reliably measure the performance and impact of the SBIR/STTR Programs, you must review and ensure that your Company Commercialization data is complete, current, and accurate. The Company Commercialization Report must list every prior SBIR/STTR Phase II award received from any federal agency, regardless of whether the Phase II has commercialized to date. Phase III sales and investment figures, as well as manufacturing-related R&D and other commercialization information, must be updated within the last 12 months for all Phase II awards.

Password Security Policy

Effective measures to reduce system vulnerability and increase security include creating a strong password to your account and changing it frequently. This is your defense for protecting your firm’s proposal information. Choose a strong password that does not contain easily recognizable information like firm names, phone numbers, addresses, or other information that someone could guess. Your new password MUST be at least 10 characters and contain the following: at least 1 upper case letter; at least 1 lower case letter; at least 1 number; and at least 1 special character (e.g. $, ?, !, etc.).

DoD SBIR Help Desk

If you have any questions please contact the DoD SBIR/STTR Help Desk at 866-724-7457 or by e-mail at sbirhelp@brtrc.com.

The VSPI (Virtual Strategic Partner Introduction) Series is a free, on-line introduction to emerging technologies that have been funded by the National Science Foundation [NSF] and are being developed by small businesses around the country. As part of the Commercialization Planning Program that Dawnbreaker administers for NSF, the VSPI provides the opportunity for participating companies to introduce their early stage technologies to potential strategic partners. Partners might take the form of licensees, OEMs, investors, beta sites, etc.

You can easily review the agenda and abstracts of all technologies being presented in the VSPI Series by visiting https://www.dawnbreaker.com/vspi/agenda.php

While there is no fee to participate in these sessions, registration is required in order to obtain the password protected URL link for the virtual meeting rooms.

If you have any further questions about the VSPI Series, please feel free to contact Steve Orth of Dawnbreaker at 585-594-5188 or sorth@dawnbreaker.com

“I have participated in almost all of the VSPI offerings since their initiation in Fall 2009 and find the company “flights” to be informative and well-executed.  Featured companies provide succinct information about their technology(ies) and team which should spur potential partner companies, researchers, investors, and customers to begin a dialogue with the company and potentially develop a future relationship.  This series provides a unique opportunity for all interested parties that has the real potential of moving technologies from the workbench to the marketplace” - Kelly S. Wylam, Manager, Innovation Partnership

For the SBIR program the SBA has raised the award threshold amounts from $100,000 to $150,000 for Phase I, and $750,000 to $1,000,000 for phase II.  This does not mean an agency MUST make awards that follow these parameters.  (Agencies need to provide justification to SBA for awards in excess of the policy directive guidelines and explain the reasons for awarding higher amounts.)

At this time, it is unknown which agencies will immediately change their funding policies.  As we already do know however, some agencies already make awards in excess of the limits – like NIH, and parts of DoD.

Rick Shindell has some background in the March 30th Issue of his SBIR Insider. Please see the following link for more information SBIR Gateway’s Insider page

Last month, HCAR hosted Spotlight on SBIR/STTR Grants, a Lunch for Hungry Minds presentation about the Innovation Partnership (IPart) and how to access the nearly $2 Billion in federal research and development funding that is available for early-stage technology companies. That presentation, available here, highlighted how to apply for SBIR and STTR grants.

Join us on April 20, 2010 for the next installment of the Lunch for Hungry Minds seminar series. Dr. Bill Freeman, a National Institutes of Health SBIR/STTR grant reviewer will highlight best practices, describe the review process and give you advice to maximize the effectiveness of your SBIR/STTR grant application.

This is a free event. Colleagues and friends are welcome. Please click here to RSVP to Linda Garisto or call Linda at 717-566-8900.

In addition to his role as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant reviewer, Dr. Freeman is an Assistant Professor & Director of the Functional Genomics Core Facility at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center & College of Medicine. His research is focused on two broad areas of post-genome science: the systems biology of behavior and biomarker development.

Your business will benefit from HCAR’s state-of-the-art space and strategic business services. For more information and to schedule a tour, please contact Jack Atchason at 717-566-8900.