Get Non-Dilutive Funding for Your Startup
This workshop will take you through all the steps necessary to successfully file a well-written SBIR/STTR grant application for the January 2022 NIH deadline and Spring 2022 NSF window. Taking the workshop, you will learn how to craft an appropriate research plan, obtain persuasive letters of support, develop an efficient budget, and anticipate reviewers’ comments. We will help you speed through the application instructions, saving you hours of time. Results from past attendees indicate that taking this course triples your chances of success. The workshop culminates in a submission clinic that will ensure your application is correctly filed.
One or more team members (up to three) from the company should be prepared to participate in every session. These will be working sessions. The course comprises eight working sessions including a pre-submission review of your Specific Aims page by our course instructors.
Registration
Refund available through the day after the first workshop session.
Be prepared to commit to 40 hours of work on your submission. Companies must be incorporated by the date of the first session, or at the very latest, the second session.
Schedule (Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30 PM: 1 hour presentation, 30 min Q&A)
October 6
October 13
October 20
November 3
November 10
November 17
December 1
December 15
Eligibility & the registration process (NIH & NSF)
Specific Aims setup (NIH) & the NSF elevator pitch
Specific Aims interactive peer review with Kaspar
Budget & justification (including Phase 2)
Research plan for NIH & NSF (including Phase 2). Also, introduction to IP confidentiality
Letters, bios, & other sections
Forms for NIH & NSF
Forms & submitting proposal
Topics
Understanding the eligibility requirements of an SBIR grant
Preparing to apply for an SBIR (company formation, registration at all required websites, identifying the best PI)
Assembling all the necessary parts of the application (letters of support, sub-contract quotes and letters, facilities description, research plan, etc.)
Strategies for designing your specific aims
Budget strategies and restrictions
Complete and convincing budget justifications
Documentation required to use human samples, human subjects and vertebrate animals
What makes a competitive proposal
Common mistakes that applicants make
Filling in forms and submission process
Re-submission if your grant is not funded
Phase II SBIR applications
Searching for program announcements and finding non-dilutive funding opportunities
Instructors
Shauna Farr-Jones, PhD, UCSF/QB3 grant writer
Kaspar Mossman, PhD, Director of Marketing & Communications, QB3
Fee Structure
General Admission: $500
QB3 Founders Pledge members (invitation only): $150
Email Kaspar Mossman with any questions.
About the Instructor
Shauna Farr-Jones, Ph.D., has a record of writing successful government grant and contract proposals on diverse life science topics, providing strategic input on both research and business plans. She has helped companies secure over $200 million in grant and contract funding from numerous government and philanthropic organizations, including BARDA, NIH, DTRA, USDA, DARPA and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. For 17 years, she has consulted for life science companies and universities, identifying funding opportunities, preparing research plans, marketing plans, technical reports INDs, NDAs, white papers and proposals. She is also the Project Manager of the Antibody Technology Research Center at UCSF. Previously, she was Senior Writer at BioCentury Publications, where she analyzed and wrote about the biotechnology industry. She was a post-doctoral fellow at UCSF and has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Tufts University.