Stacy L. Chin explains how to get NIH SBIR funding without giving up equity. Contact program officers directly before submitting, not through generic email. Recent staff turnover and paperwork cuts have created bottlenecks, so a direct pitch to the right person can redirect you to the right sub-agency if needed.
So that's a nice way to say, this is my proposal, are you interested? If they say no, they might shoot you to someone else on the subagency side. So a lot of founders miss this really important step. You type NIH SBIR program officers, they used to give you a name of the program officer, but they now recently changed that to just generic email. Their job is to respond to you guys, but there is turnover going on right now, which I think what you've seen. Yeah. Are a lot of changes happening to try to reduce administrative burden, but it's still creating a bit of a bottleneck.
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