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Can the SBIR and STTR programs advance research goals?

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With diminishing grant support for traditional funding in immunology, can the small-business program leverage a research program? The small-business grants programs offered by the US National Institutes of Health and other organizations support high-risk, early-stage technology commercialization at small businesses.

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Figure 1: Valley of death: the role of the SBIR and STTR programs and venture capitalists.

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  1. Steven Ceulemans is with the technology-based economic development office of the Birmingham Business Alliance, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.,

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  2. Jay K. Kolls is with the Department of Pediatrics, Department of Immunology and the Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.,

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J.K.K. is a cofounder (with no employment or advisory role) of MiniVax, which received a phase I grant from the STTR program in 2010.

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Ceulemans, S., Kolls, J. Can the SBIR and STTR programs advance research goals?. Nat Immunol 14, 192–195 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2495

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