Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA GM 18 001
The Regional Technology Transfer Accelerator Hubs for IDeA States (STTR) (UT2 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) funding opportunity (RFA-GM-18-001) is a National Institutes of Health cooperative agreement designed to help strengthen biomedical commercialization in states that participate in the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program. The central idea is to fund U.S. small business concerns (SBCs) that can team up with academic partners in IDeA states to build and rigorously test regional "technology transfer accelerator hubs." These hubs are meant to operate as structured, repeatable programs that teach and support the real-world business steps needed to move discoveries out of university labs and into products and services that ultimately improve patient care and human health.
A key feature of this FOA is that it is framed as research and development of an accelerator model, not simply the delivery of standard training or routine tech transfer support. Awardees are expected to develop, implement, and test a comprehensive program that promotes biomedical entrepreneurship and strengthens the practical capabilities that often limit commercialization. That includes technology transfer know-how (such as translating intellectual property into licensing opportunities), business and project management skills, small business finance, and other core commercialization competencies. In other words, the funded work is intended to generate evidence about what works in accelerating translational progress and startup readiness within IDeA-state environments, where commercialization infrastructure may be less mature than in traditional research powerhouses.
The regional structure is also central to the program design. Each funded SBC, working with its academic partner or partners, is expected to establish an accelerator hub that serves a network of multiple institutional sites across IDeA states within one of four regions tied to where the academic partners are located. Rather than focusing on a single campus, the hub is supposed to function as a regional connector and capacity builder, spreading entrepreneurial and commercialization support across several institutions. This networked approach is meant to create scale, reduce duplication, and help smaller or less-resourced institutions plug into shared expertise, programming, and mentoring.
The long-term goal is capacity and culture change: increasing the ability of academic institutions in IDeA states to convert scientific results into commercial pathways, while also promoting a sustainable culture of biomedical entrepreneurship. Sustainability matters here because the program is not just trying to help a few projects; it is trying to make commercialization support more routine, learnable, and repeatable in these regions, so that future discoveries have clearer paths to impact. The initiative is therefore as much about building systems and skills as it is about supporting individual innovations.
The expected "product" of the funded research is a set of educational tools and resources that come out of developing and testing these accelerator models. The FOA specifically points to outputs like curricula, texts, and webinars. These deliverables are meant to be practical and transferable so other institutions can adopt or adapt them to create their own accelerator hubs. Notably, the FOA anticipates that the educational tools developed under the award could be licensed or sold to other organizations, reinforcing the idea that the accelerator model should be replicable and potentially self-sustaining beyond the initial funding period.
From an eligibility and administrative standpoint, the opportunity is limited to small businesses as the eligible applicants, reflecting the STTR emphasis on small business-led innovation with formal collaboration with research institutions. The awarding agency is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the NIH, with the program associated with CFDA 93.859. The mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically means there is substantial federal involvement during the project period compared with a standard grant. The FOA anticipated making around four awards. The listing shows an award ceiling of 0, which usually indicates that applicants should refer to the full FOA for budget guidance or that budgets may be determined based on project needs rather than a single fixed cap.
Finally, the "UT2 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed" designation signals that the work supported under this announcement is not intended to include clinical trials. The emphasis is on building and validating commercialization and entrepreneurship infrastructure, training systems, and accelerator programming rather than testing clinical interventions in human subjects.Apply for RFA GM 18 001
- The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Regional Technology Transfer Accelerator Hubs for IDeA States (STTR) (UT2 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.859.
- This funding opportunity was created on Oct 20, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 05, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Small businesses.
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