Just released — The annual announcement of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract topics for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was released on August 2, 2024, PHS-2025-1.
While the lion’s share of the over $1.3 billion annual budget for SBIR programs at NIH and CDC are provided through the grant mechanism, once a year there is a call for SBIR proposals supported through the contract mechanism. The list of Institutes and Centers participating in the solicitations varies year to year as do the topics of interest. This year, topics range from “Leveraging Multimodal and Generative Artificial Intelligence to Advance the Application of Social Robotics in Caregiving” (National Institute on Aging) to “Rapid Diagnostic Assays for Self-Monitoring of Acute or Rebound HIV-1 Infection” (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) to “Data Science Solutions to Characterize Polysubstance Use Behavior from Online Sources” (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control). Six NIH Institutes and 3 CDC Centers are participating in the contract offering this year.
See the full list of eligible topics, expected number of awards for each topic, application requirements, and expected award dates at:
https://sam.gov/opp/b6c0bad2a0924520a704bb1bca846615/view
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Applications are due October 18, 2024, 5 PM, EDT.