PHS 2011 02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH, CDC, FDA and ACF for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (Parent SBIR R43/R44) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The PHS 2011-02 Omnibus Solicitation (PA-11-096) is a federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding opportunity designed to bring U.S. small businesses into the research and development pipelines of several major public agencies: the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). The program invites eligible U.S. small business concerns to propose innovative R and D projects that align with the missions and specific topic areas published by the participating components. In practice, this is a broad "parent" SBIR announcement: it is not limited to one narrow scientific problem, but instead points applicants to a menu of agency topic areas described in the companion SBIR/STTR Program Descriptions and Research Topics document referenced in the announcement.

The basic purpose of the opportunity is to support high-impact, commercially relevant innovation that also advances public health, biomedical science, regulatory science, and human services outcomes. It is structured for small businesses that already have research capability and technical expertise and can translate that expertise into a product, platform, tool, intervention, or enabling technology that can ultimately be deployed in the real world. Because it is an SBIR solicitation, it is oriented around early-stage feasibility work and subsequent development efforts that move an idea toward commercialization, adoption, or broader implementation. The solicitation covers both SBIR grant mechanisms listed in the title, R43 and R44, which generally correspond to Phase I (feasibility/proof of concept) and Phase II (full R and D and prototype development), with the parent announcement serving as an umbrella route for submitting those applications under participating agency topics.

The opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding and uses the grant funding instrument. The funding activity spans a wide range of public mission areas, including education, environment, food and nutrition, health, and income security and social services. That breadth is reflected in the long list of CFDA program areas associated with this solicitation. The covered topics include, among many others, applied public health innovations, FDA research and regulatory science, environmental health, oral health, injury prevention and control, genomics, communication disorders, complementary and integrative health, mental health, occupational safety and health, alcohol and substance use research, minority health and health disparities, nursing research, cancer research across prevention through treatment and control, cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, blood disorders, arthritis and skin conditions, diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases, neurological disorders, allergy and immunology, infectious diseases, general biomedical research and training, child health and development, aging, vision research, medical library and information resources, and social services research and demonstrations. The inclusion of ACF-linked areas signals that proposals are not confined to biomedical products; they can also address evidence-based interventions, service delivery innovations, and technology-enabled approaches relevant to children and families and social service systems, so long as they fit SBIR requirements and the listed topics.

Eligibility is limited to small businesses, consistent with SBIR statutory requirements, and the announcement emphasizes that applicants must be United States small business concerns. No cost sharing or matching is required, which is typical for SBIR grants and is explicitly stated in the opportunity data. The posted and creation date for the announcement is January 24, 2011, and the original (and current) closing date listed is January 7, 2012, with an archive date of February 7, 2012. An award ceiling of $150,000 is shown in the source data, which aligns with the general scale of Phase I SBIR budgets in many agencies during that time period, though the parent solicitation typically allows for topic- and institute-specific variations depending on participating component guidance.

From an applicant perspective, the key practical takeaway is that this omnibus solicitation serves as a common entry point to multiple HHS-related agencies and many subprograms, but the application still needs to map cleanly to a specific participating component and one of its identified research topics. The announcement explicitly directs businesses to consult the associated topic list document (PHS 2011-2 SBIR/STTR Program Descriptions and Research Topics for NIH, CDC, FDA and ACF) to ensure their proposal aligns with the mission needs and priorities of the component that would potentially fund it. That topic alignment is central in parent solicitations: the grant mechanism is standardized, but program relevance and fit are determined by the awarding component and its topic areas.

For additional details and the full official announcement text, the opportunity provides a link to the NIH Grants Guide page (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-096.html). The contact information provided is the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster (FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV) for technical issues accessing or linking to the announcement, indicating that scientific or programmatic questions would typically be routed through the specific participating institute, center, or agency contacts listed in the full FOA and topic documents.

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