Dr. Jo Anne Goodnight will be coming from the nation’s capitol to Nebraska to host the “From Lab to Life” workshops in Omaha and Lincoln on Thursday, October 11, in order to discuss opportunities offered by the National Institutes for Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.
Goodnight, the SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program coordinator of the NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service, plans to speak about the competitive SBIR and STTR grants that the government awards to small businesses in an effort to stimulate innovation.
Goodnight also serves as the acting director for the Division of Special Programs in the Office of Extramural Research. She has held positions with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. As an intramural research scientist at the National Cancer Institute, she published more than 20 research studies.
Goodnight’s lecture will be the focus of the events, which will take place in Omaha in the morning and Lincoln in the afternoon.
The first “From Lab to Life” session will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Omaha at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, 42nd Street and Dewey Ave., in Room 1011/1012. A continental breakfast and networking will precede the workshop at 8 a.m.
That afternoon, a second workshop will be held at 4:15 p.m. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) East Campus Student Union, Arbor and Center Dr. Refreshments and networking will follow the presentation.
In addition to Goodnight’s lecture, other discussion topics include:
- Discovering what research NIH is seeking, what money is available and how to get proposals funded.
- Learning how the pilot manufacturing assistance program, Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP), and Pipeline to Partnerships (P2P) help small businesses commercialize innovation;
- Finding out how to stay informed about funding and partnerships opportunities, how to assess a partnership fit and important “dos and don’ts”; and
- Learning about the services NIH programs offer to help move an idea into the marketplace, including identifying other uses for technologies, market strategies, strategic planning, alliance building and investor partnerships, and manufacturing and operational consulting.
Event sponsors for the event include UNO, UNL, the UNMC, Creighton University, Boys Town National Research Hospital, University of Nebraska Technology Park, UNL Technology Development, Nebraska EPSCoR and Bio Nebraska, University of Nebraska, and Nebraska Business Development Center.
For more information, call Jean Waters at (402) 554-6259 or visit http://www.sbirnebraska.unomaha.edu.