Join us for a Navigating Grant Opportunities with NIH webinar, June 20 2024
The Global Aerospace Industry Outlook & Update
Are you a small business owner interested in learning more about grant funding opportunities with federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH)? Are you interested in learning more about how your business aligns with their investment areas?
Join The Ohio Aerospace Institute for a virtual event to learn about the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Funding Programs. Our guest speaker will discuss the various topic areas that are of importance to the NIH.
Attendees will:
Receive an overview of the SBIR/STTR program
Learn more about the various technologies in which NIH invests
Learn how to develop and prepare a competitive proposal
Connect with advisors for follow up support to develop technology and proposal ideas
About Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Grants
Federal grants for technology-based startups to develop commercially viable innovations
Focused on significant innovations with high levels of technical risk
Funding assistance to support companies with scale-up, prototyping, and testing activities.
Awards do not have to be paid back and do not require issuance of equity range from up to $306,872 for Phase I, and $2,045,816 for Phase II
Ronald “Ron” Stubblefield is a Senior Program Manager with Parallax Advanced Research’s (Parallax) Tech-Based Economic Development team housed at the Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI). In this capacity, Ron helps manage OAI’s entrepreneurial and tech transfer support programs through the EDA-funded Center for Advanced Air Mobility Initiative, the SBA Federal and State Technology Program, the Ohio Space Grant Consortium, and the Ohio Third Frontier Funded Entrepreneurial Support Providers Program. Before joining the Parallax team, Ron served as an Entrepreneur in Residence for JumpStart Inc., Chief of Staff and Corporate Counsel at Pacific Community Ventures, and Special Assistant to the Deputy Mayor of Community Economic Development for the City of Baltimore. He has also served as a SBIR/STTR commercialization, business plan, or DEI reviewer for NASA, NOAA, NSF, US Treasury, and EDA.
Ms. Stephanie J. Fertig is Director, NIH Small Business Program, in SEED (Small business Education and Entrepreneurial Development) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She currently oversees the Health and Human Services (HHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, which includes the NIH SBIR and STTR programs. The HHS SBIR and STTR programs are congressionally mandated set-aside programs that provide over $1.3 billion dollars per year to small business concerns. Prior to joining SEED, she managed the SBIR and STTR Programs at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). During her over 15 years at NIH she has led the development and implementation of multiple programs focused on small businesses and translational research. Ms. Fertig has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry with a major in Physics from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Colleen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology, University of Akron and a corporate Biomimicry Fellow jointly sponsored by NASA Glenn Research Center and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. At UA, her dissertation work focuses on integrating inclusive design into bio-inspired design. In the lab, she studies how animal locomotor biomechanics can inspire novel all-terrain mobility aid designs.
At NASA, Colleen works alongside engineers and data scientists to develop an AI design and translation tool (PeTaL) to streamline nature-inspired solution discovery for practitioners. She has also served as the lead organizer for Biocene 2019-2020 and coordinates NASA’s V.I.N.E. (Virtual Interchange for Nature-inspired Exploration), a collaborative network of academics, industry experts, and citizen scientists with a shared interest in nature-inspired research.
Colleen K. Unsworth