Wyoming SBDC - SBIR/STTR at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Are you an aspiring research entrepreneur or small business seeking non-dilutive funding opportunities? Join the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a webinar on small business funding opportunities. Learn more about the NIH non-dilutive Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) funding and resources to help small businesses advance and commercialize promising translational biotech and life sciences research technologies. You’ll learn about NCATS’ key research focus areas, tips for submitting a successful application, upcoming funding opportunities, and other NCATS resources and programs.

Co-Sponsored by University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy

Speaker:
Meena Rajagopal, Ph.D.
Program Director
NCATS Small Business Program
Office of Strategic Alliances
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
National Institutes of Health

Meena is an experienced scientist in translational research and has worked in several labs including academia and research institutes in the Washington DC metro area. She is the Program Director for the NCATS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) grant and contract programs. In this role, Meena oversees the NCATS SBIR/STTR program, manages a portfolio of SBIR -STTR grants, is involved in SBIR outreach activities and serves as the NCATS primary point of contact for the Small Business Programs Management Committee.

Before joining NCATS, Meena was a scientist at the NIH and carried out translational proteomics research in partnership with investigators at Tulane University. Meena was a Principal Investigator on an NIH SBIR grant application while at Georgetown University, where she also coordinated various metabolomics research projects at the Metabolomics facility at the Lombardi Cancer Center.