# Presentation: 725684

## Timeline/Communications

**Margaret C. Grabb, Ph.D.**
**National Institute of Mental Health**
**Phone: 301-443-3563, email: mgrabb@mail.nih.gov**** **

**9****th**** Annual NIH SBIR Conference**

## Timeline/Communications

**Concept                                Funding**

**0**

**Time**

**~** **5 months**

**~****3 months**

**3 months**

**weeks**

## Concept

**Identify core technology, prepare business plan**
**Select PI and explore partnerships**
**Arrange space, resources**
_**Explore NIH internet pages**_
**Register for electronic submission**

**weeks**

## Exploring the NIH Internet

**NIH SBIR Website**
**	*****Google:  NIH SBIR***
**NIH Institutes/Centers Websites**
**	**_[www.nih.gov](http://www.nih.gov/)_
**NIH Guide**
***	******Google: NIH Guide***
**NIH Computer Retrieval of Information****on Scientific Projects Database**
***	******Google:  NIH CRISP***

## Exploring the NIH Internet: NIH SBIR Website

***- Google: NIH SBIR***

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## Exploring the NIH Internet: NIH SBIR Website

**PHS 2007-02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH, CDC, and FDA**
**for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications**
**(Parent SBIR [R43/R44])    - *****PA-07-280***
**PHS 2007-02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH, CDC, and FDA**
**for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications**
**(Parent STTR [R41/R42])** **-**** *****PA-07-281***
***Includes: Program description, instructions, list of contacts for the***
***Institutes and Centers***
* *

## Exploring the NIH Internet: NIH SBIR Website  

***- Research topics***

## Exploring the NIH Internet: NIH SBIR Website

***- Research Topics***

## Exploring the NIH Internet: Institutes/Centers Websites- www.nih.gov

## Funding Opportunity Announcements Google: NIH Guide

## NIH Computer Retrieval of Informationon Scientific Projects Database

***Google: NIH CRISP***

## Concept

**Identify core technology, prepare business plan**
**Select PI and explore partnerships**
**Arrange space, resources**
**Explore NIH internet pages**
**Register for electronic submission**
**	****Grants.gov; NIH Commons**

**Weeks**

## Contact NIH

**Contact **_**Program staff**_** listed in:**
**Funding Opportunity Announcements**
**Research Topics**
**	********* *****NIH SBIR Website***

**3 months**

## Contact NIH

**Discuss needs, trends, gaps and roadblocks**
**Identify your competition**
**Identify Funding Opportunity Announcement**
**Identify resources to help you**
**Identify other funding opportunities **
**Be your advocate**

***Program Staff***

**3 months**

## Contact NIH

**Administrative matters**
**Budget**
**Policy Issues **

_***Grants Management Staff***_

_***Scientific Review***_
_***Administrators***_

**Review information**

**3 months**

## Submission

**Grants.gov**
**Must use a Funding Opportunity Announcement**
**(FOA)**
**	****- Omnibus Solicitation or specific announcement**
**Include a cover letter**

## Submission

**Suggest Institute/Center for assignment**
**Suggest Review Committee**
**Explain expertise necessary for review**
**Ask that some people be excluded as reviewers**
**If applicable, explain changed or corrected application**

***Cover letter***

## Submission/Assignment

**Review your Commons information weekly**
**Contact CSR Referral Office if:**
**Application is not in Commons within three weeks**
**If Institute and review assignments are not in Commons within five weeks**
**If you have other concerns**

## Submission/Assignment

## Review 

**Five working days after review:**
**Priority score available in the Commons**
**Six to eight weeks after review:**
**Summary statement available in the Commons**
**READ SUMMARY STATEMENT CAREFULLY**
**Contact program staff to discuss the review**
**	****- Is the application in a fundable range?**
**	****- Suggestions for revisions**

## Review 

- Pending Award

## Common Reasons for Poor Priority Scores 

**Lack of innovation**
**Absence of an acceptable scientific rationale**
**Lack of experience on the essential methodology**
**Lack of sufficient experimental detail**
**Lack of details on how evaluation will be performed**
**Lack of knowledge of published relevant work**
**Uncertainty concerning future directions**
**Commercialization plan is not defined**
**Not clear how the technology is better than what is**
** ****commercially available**

## Advisory Council Review 

**Council meeting date appears in the NIH Commons **
**Contact Program staff to see how the review went.**
**	****- Is the application in line for funding?**
**	**

***Second level of review***

- *

**** Pay plan developed, signed***

## “Just in Time Information”

**Grants Management will contact you **
**You need to provide “Just in Time” information**
**Approvals for research with human subjects or **
**vertebrate animals, other support information, etc.**
**Any questions?  Contact Grants Management staff**

## Notice of Grant Award

**Read the Notice of Grant Award carefully **
**Begin your research**
**Contact Grants Management if changes to the grant **
**are needed **
**	****(e.g. change in PI, company name change, etc.)**
**Any questions?  Contact Program staff**

## The Award and Beyond

**Begin preparing the Phase II application**
**Consider needs for Phase III**

******Learn about  NIH’s Technical Assistance***
***Programs***

## The Award and Beyond

****Contact Program staff with your success**
**stories!**