Small Business Awards

Do you qualify for NIH small business grants?

• For SBIR, read Section III. Eligibility Information in the Parent Program Announcement.
• For STTR, read Eligibility Information in the Parent Program Announcement.

Note that we cannot support a clinical trial through an SBIR or STTR grant. For details, read "Can my small business obtain funding for a clinical trial?"

Identify a product to research. Call your local biotechnology organization for help.

Find an NIAID opportunity for your product.

Review our NIAID Small Business High-Priority Areas of Interest.

Read NIAID's section of the NIH Omnibus Solicitation for SBIR and STTR Grant Applications.

Find opportunities and apply:

• For investigator-initiated research, use the following:
  • SBIR—R43, R44 Parent Program Announcement
  • STTR—R41, R42 Parent Program Announcement
• For Institute-specific initiatives, go to:
  • NIAID Funding Opportunities List
  • Look for R41, R42, R43, R44, U43, or U44.

Find a partner at our SHIFT Connector: Bringing Business Jobs to Academic Investigators, which links academics and small businesses.

Assess SBIR or STTR funding historical trends in our Archive of Final NIAID Paylines by Fiscal Year.

Write your application using our Advice Presentations for SBIR and STTR.

Review the Model SBIR Phase II Application and Summary Statement.

To fill out the forms, read the instructions in the SBIR and STTR SF 424 Application Guide—Adobe Forms Version B.

After you have read the instructions, review these forms to avoid common mistakes:

• Small Business Annotated Application Form Set ( forms with annotations)

Understand funding decisions using the Paylines and Funding portal.

• Check Paylines at NIAID Paylines.
  • We do not have actual paylines until we have a budget.
  • Read more in Paylines and Budget Pages Change Throughout the Year.
• Learn about funding decisions, and get advice on what to do if your application did not succeed. Get advice in Strategy for Funding Decisions in the Strategy for NIH Funding.

Find more NIAID grant portals. Go to our other Grants portals by stage, audience, and science area.

Find more information from NIAID.

• Standard Operating Procedures
  • Small Business Awards section
• Questions and Answers
  • Small Business Award section

Get advice from NIAID

Watch for policy changes and other news.

• NIAID Funding Newsletter—biweekly newsletter
• Subscribe to Email Alerts—newsletter, funding opportunities, paylines, and other interest areas.
• Special Announcements—all NIAID-relevant NIH Guide announcements except funding opportunities.
• Top Policy Changes—summary of major policy announcements for one year.

Subscribe to NIH announcements.

• NIH Guide
  • Listserv
• NIH Extramural Nexus
  • Listserv
• eRA Commons News
  • Listservs

Find policy portals at NIH.

• Animals in Research
• Conflict of Interest
• Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
• Intellectual Property
• Multiple Principal Investigators
• Public Access
• Research Involving Human Subjects
• Sharing Policies and Related Guidance
• Small Business Funding
  • NIH SBIR and STTR LISTSERV
  • NIH SBIR and STTR Success Stories
  • SBIR and STTR Parent Solicitations

Find other useful links at NIH and beyond.

• Grants.gov
• Standard NIH Submission Dates