Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a significant health issue that occurs at a high rate in military populations. According to the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, more than 380,000 Service members have been diagnosed with TBI since 2000. TBI is also a significant public health burden that most commonly is a result of car accidents, falls, or sports injuries [CDC]. The Department of defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) ...
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Does your company have a therapeutic candidate (small molecule, monoclonal antibody, combination product, or other) for the treatment of a type of cancer? Does your therapeutic candidate have multiple indications for multiple types of cancers (e.g., drugs targeting reactive oxygen species [ROS] or cell surface receptors [GPCRs, EGFR]; protein inhibitors [Hsp90, ATR kinase]; epigenetic enzymes [LSD1]; or combination therapies [erlotinib ...
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The Department of Defense (DoD) and other military assisting Federal Agencies have a large and diverse community of subject matter experts (SME) who are eager to collaborate with industry and universities. These extraordinary SMEs are driven to accelerate new and novel dual-use technologies forward to clinical and operational settings. There are thousands of healthcare providers in 167 DoD medical treatment facilities within the U.S. (43 Army MTFs); tens of thousands of researchers in the
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This post has since been updated: FY19 Update: CDMRP PRMRP Funding and Annual Topic Area Changes
A great source of non-dilutive funding for a small business concern (SBC) and Universities is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP summary). CDRMP has 23 research programs, which includes the Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP). Within each research topic are award types, such as the Investigator-Initiated Research Award (IIRA), ...
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The Department of Defense (DoD) and other military assisting Federal Agencies have a large and diverse community of subject matter experts (SME) who are eager to collaborate with industry and universities. These extraordinary SMEs are driven to accelerate new and novel dual-use technologies forward to clinical and operational settings. There are thousands of healthcare providers in 167 DoD medical treatment facilities within the U.S. (63 Air Force MTFs); tens of thousands of researchers in the ...
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There are many types of Cooperative R&D Agreement (CRADA) instruments and processes used by the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other Federal Agencies. Each type of CRADA presents a different mechanism or path to establishing meaningful and long-term collaborations between Federal and non-Federal entities to foster R&D innovation and improve the transition and commercialization of required technologies. This list of the types of CRADAs utilized by the DoD and VA is not ...
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Cooperative R&D agreements (CRADAs) and other DoD technology transfer mechanisms (e.g., licensing, patents, and publishing) help to convey knowledge, ownership rights, or establish formal research agreements between Federal and non-Federal entities. Of these instruments, CRADAs provide a convenient mechanism for these entities to collaborate, but how many CRADAs are completed by each Federal entity each year?
Asking questions like this is important for a company when considering if they should build a long-term business relationship with ...
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An important first step before your company applies for Department of Defense (DoD) or other Federal Agency funding mechanisms is to ensure your company’s registrations are properly completed. To assist with completion of the registration process, we have compiled a checklist of DoD non-dilutive funding (NDF) registrations below.
The SAM and eRA registrations can take the longest time to complete. These registrations should be started as early as possible to prevent delays in your NDF applications. ...
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The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) was established as an enterprise partnership to facilitate research in and translation of life science technologies. MTEC was formed in response to the U.S. Government’s appeal to speed delivery of medical technology that protects, treats, and optimizes the health and performance of U.S. military personnel. The goal of this Consortium is to “conduct research and development activities that advance the state-of-the-art as well as medical science ...
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