Small Business Opportunities for Innovative Women’s Health Research - October 30, 2024
Date and Time
– October 30, 2024, 1:00 PM EDTVirtual only.
The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) is hosting a virtual webinar to discuss “Small Business Opportunities for Innovative Women’s Health Research.”
As mentioned in President Biden’s Executive Order on Advancing Women’s Health Research and Innovation, private sector innovation is a key aspect of accelerating and improving women’s health research. NIH is committed to further increasing—by 50%—its investments to support innovators and early-stage small businesses engaged in research and development on women’s health.
Staff from the NIH Small business Education and Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) Office and several NIH small business programs will provide overviews of their programs and institute- and center-specific interests at the intersection of innovation and women’s health. Attendees can submit questions in advance for program staff.
The Small Business Programs, also known as America’s Seed Fund, are comprised of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. This webinar will focus on small business opportunities for women’s health research, with two overarching goals:
- To inform the women’s health research community of small business opportunities
- To inform the small business community of women’s health research priorities
| Time (ET) | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 a.m. | Webinar introduction | Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., FARVO Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health and Director of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) |
| 11:05 a.m. | Introduction to the NIH Small Business Program | Stephanie Fertig, M.B.A. Director, NIH Small Business Program SEED Office |
| 11:25 a.m. | ORWH Small Business Interest | Elizabeth Barr, Ph.D. Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Research ORWH |
| 11:32 a.m. | National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Small Business Program | Emrin Horgusluoglu, Ph.D. Program Director, Basic and Mechanistic Research Branch of the Division of Extramural Research NCCIH |
| 11:39 a.m. | National Eye Institute (NEI) Small Business Program | Paek Lee, Ph.D. Program Director NEI |
| 11:46 a.m. | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Small Business Program | Daniel Gossett, Ph.D. Program Director Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases NIDDK |
| 11:53 a.m. | National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) Small Business Program | Noffisat O. Oki, Ph.D. Director, Data Science, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics Program NIDCR Orlando Lopez, Ph.D. Director, Dental Materials and Biomaterials Program NIDCR |
| 12:00 p.m | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Small Business Program | Natalia Kruchinin, Ph.D. SBIR/STTR Program Coordinator NIAID |
| 12:07 p.m. | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Small Business Program | Daniel T. Shaughnessy, Ph.D. Health Scientist Administrator Exposure, Response, and Technology Branch (ERTB) NIEHS |
| 12:14 p.m. | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Small Business Program | Eddie Billingslea, Ph.D. Small Business Strategy Coordinator NIGMS |
| 12:21 p.m. | Audience questions | Moderators: Balkissa Ouattara, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Medical Officer ORWH David Thomas, Ph.D. Senior Advisor to the Director ORWH |
| 1:00 p.m. | Adjourn | Elizabeth Barr, Ph.D. Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Research ORWH |