At a glance
This program funds academic and industrial partnerships to develop and speed adoption of bioengineering tools and technologies for important unmet biomedical problems. Applicants may be nonprofits, universities, for-profit organizations, small businesses, governments, tribal entities, federal entities, foreign organizations, and other eligible organizations, but each application must include an academic-industrial partnership. Awards have no set budget limit, the number of awards depends on NIH appropriations and meritorious applications, and the project period can be up to 5 years. No cost sharing is required. Some NIH institutes limit the kinds of projects they will support, and clinical trial support is restricted in several cases, including only certain early-stage, minimal-risk, or mechanistic trials depending on the institute.
What it funds
Official description from grants.gov
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications from research partnerships formed by academic and industrial investigators to accelerate the development and adoption of promising bioengineering tools and technologies that can address important biomedical problems. The objectives are to establish these tools and technologies as robust, well-characterized solutions that fulfill an unmet need and are capable of enhancing our understanding of life science processes or the practice of medicine. Awards will focus on supporting multidisciplinary teams that apply an integrative, quantitative bioengineering approach to developing technologies. The goal of the program is to support technological innovations that deliver new capabilities which can realize meaningful solutions within 5 10 years.
Who can apply
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Others
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities / Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments