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| Re: Letter Proposals
Posted by myxomycetes on 4/9/2008, 12:55 pm, in reply to "Letter Proposals"
Hi Donaldo,
I work in a major medical research university in the Southeast. The NIH has funding mechanisms for use exclusively by for-profit institutions, especially small businesses. See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/Funding/sbir.htm for information on these "STTRs" and "SBIRs."
You can apply for funds under a so-called "Parent PA," which means you have an idea for a drug or a procedure and you're looking to get it funded. There are also spefic PAs and RFAs, which means the NIH is looking to fund very specific types of projects (eg, vaccines targeting HIV).
There are 3 deadlines per year for Parent PAs; the more specific RFPs will have their own deadlines. Don't expect to be funded the first time through; the NIH has a resubmission system by which you submit a grant, they score it and give you comments, you submit it again with changes based on those comments, and the cycle goes one more time. You have 3 chances to get a grant funded before they refuse to look at it again.
Submitting to the NIH is very different from submitting to private foundations. If you submit to the NIH, I strongly encourage you to select an RFP, contact the appropriate Program Officer listed, and talk to him/her about the process. Most of them are very open and helpful.
HTH,
Tanya
PS I've been reading this message board on and off for about six months now. I'm living over here in NIH/biomed land, which seems pretty different from most of the situations discussed on this board!
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