FUNDING SBIR/STTR Programs
Federal agencies fund small business companies' (SBCs)
innovative research with commercialization potentials in various topics.
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The VPR Office supports our campus investigators' translational research and commercialization efforts.
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Commercialization is an essential process of translating fundamental scientific discovery that benefit the community. Commercialization or product development requires sizeable investment for research and development. To most of investigators, early stage of commercialization R&D funding comes from private or angel investors. Eleven federal agencies support small business R&D with SBIR/STTR programs that are known as America’s Seed Fund. These programs fund in two phases to promote research investigations of innovative technologies that have high commercialization potentials. Funding topics and agencies: More info (link to Funding). Here are some examples of successful companies that received SBIR/STTR funding.
Hall of Fame - SBIR/STTR Funded Startups
Company
Founders
Notable Funding
Agency
Technology
Qualcomm
Irwin Jacobs/Andrew Viterbi/Franklin Antonio from Linkabit
SBIR (1987)
DOD (Air Force)/NSF
Mobile Chips
Illumina
Anthony Czarnik (Parke-Davis Research Lab)/David Walt/Mark Chee/Larry Bock/John Stuelpnagel
SBIR (1999)
NIH (NCI)
DNA Sequencing
RNARX
Katalin Karikó* (U Penn)
STTR (2007)
NIH (NHLBI)
mRNA Vaccine
23andMe
Linda Avey/Paul Cusenza/Anne Wojcicki
SBIR (2010)
NIH (NHGRI)
Genomic data
Biogen
Kenneth Murray (U Edinburgh)/Philip Sharp* (MIT)/Walter Gilbert* (Harvard)
SBIR (1986)
NIH (NCI)
Biotechnology
Genzyme
Sheridan Snyder/George Whitesides/Henry Blair (lab tech @Tufts Medical School)
SBIR (1983)
NIH (NIDDK)
Biotechnology
Amgen
Winston Salser (UCLA)
SBIR (1986)
NIH (NIAID)
Biotechnology
Broadcom
HP
SBIR (1987)
DOD (Air Force)
Wireless technology