A -- THE SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PROGRAM OF THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

Notice Date

August 7, 2001

Contracting Office

National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Contracts Operations Branch, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 6100, MSC 7902, Bethesda, MD 20892

ZIP Code

20892

Solicitation Number

PHS-2002-1

Response Due

November 9, 2001

Point of Contact

Office of Extramural Programs, Office of Extramural Research (301) 435-2688

Description

THE SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PROGRAM OF THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SOL [PHS 2002-1] DUE 110901 POC Office of Extramural Programs, Office of Extramural Research, (301) 435-2688. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30305 are soliciting proposals from small business concerns that possess the research and development (R&D) expertise to conduct innovative research that will contribute toward meeting the program objectives of the agencies. A SOLICITATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE FOR SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH CONTRACT PROPOSALS [PHS 2002-1], with a closing date of November 9, 2001 for receipt of proposals, soon will be available electronically through the National Institutes of Health's "Small Business Funding Opportunities" (NIH SBIR/STTR) home page at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm. The SBIR Phase I Contract Solicitation will only be available via electronic means. Printed copies of the solicitation will not be distributed. Potential offerors are encouraged to check the NIH SBIR/STTR home page for updates on the program. Any updates or corrections to the solicitation will be posted there. The SBIR program, which was initiated in 1982, was reauthorized through fiscal year 2008 by the "Small Business Innovation Research Program Reauthorization Act of 2000" (Public Law 106-554; December 21, 2000). The purposes of the Act are to: (a) expand and improve the SBIR program; (b) emphasize increased private sector commercialization of technology developed through federal R&D; (c) increase small business participation in federal R&D; and (d) foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in the SBIR program. For purposes of the SBIR program, a "small business concern" is any business concern that, on the date of award, (1) is organized for profit, with a place of business located in the United States, which operates primarily within the United States or which makes a significant contribution to the United States economy through payment of taxes or use of American products, materials or labor; (2) is in the legal form of an individual proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, joint venture, association, trust or cooperative, except that where the form is a joint venture there can be no more than 49 percent participation by foreign business entities in the joint venture; (3) is at least 51 percent owned and controlled by one or more individuals who are citizens of, or permanent resident aliens in, the United States; AND (4) has, including its affiliates, no more than 500 employees. Following are the research topics identified in the PHS SBIR Contract Solicitation [PHS 2002-1]: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): Development of Methodology for Measuring Compliance for Medications; Medications Development; Science Education Materials Development for Middle Schools or High Schools; Search of Human Heart Genes Differentially Expressed Following Moderate Alcohol Consumption/Exposure; National Cancer Institute (NCI): Clinical Trials Data Collection Using Hand Held Technology; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): Skeletal Fixation of Prosthetic Limbs; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Noninvasive Measurement of Body Iron in Humans; National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): Analytical Techniques Program; Prevention Training; Development Of Science Education Materials or Programs; Medicinal Chemistry Design and Synthesis of Treatment Agents for Drug Abuse; Dosage from Development; Develop New Technologies for Drug Abuse Prevention Delivery: Translation of Empirically Validated Prevention Strategies and Programs into New Technologies; Novel Drug Delivery System for the Mouse; Functional Imaging Agents; Technologies for Localizing Gene Expression and Proteins in the Nervous System; Activity-based Protein Profiling; High-throughput screening of functional activity of proteins using biosensor-based technology; Develop Methodologies for Cost Analysis of Substance Abuse Prevention Programs; Develop Prevention Services Analytic Tools for Improved Substance Abuse Prevention Delivery; Develop and Maintain Substance Abuse Prevention Methodological Software; Virtual Reality for Treatment of Pain Virtual Reality for the Treatment of Drug Abuse. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS): Development of Clinical Resources for Toxicogenomic Studies; Development of Surrogate Biomarkers of Exposure or Toxicity; Development of Predictive in vitro Tests for Toxicity Testing; Development of Novel Approaches to Proteomics; Development of cDNA Arrays for Male Reproductive Toxicology. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Neuroscience-based Cognitive Tests as Outcomes Measures Project; Web-based Resource on Use and Development of Cognitive Neuroscience-based Tests in Clinical Trials; Mental Health Intervention Trials Operational Archive Project; Families as Research Partners: Development of Interactive Educational and Dissemination Modules to Train Family Members of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders about Mental Health Research Methods, Procedures, Data Analyses, and Interpretation; Development of Integrated Statistical Software for Longitudinal Community-based Clinical Trials; Development of Dissemination Tools for the Delivery of Empirically Validated Interventions in Rural and Frontier Areas; Minor Offenders with Severe Mental Illness: Developing an Educational Module to Foster Collaboration between Mental Health and Criminal Justice Staff; Develop Approaches for Dissemination of Proven Mental Health Intervention Programs for Youth to Schools and Community based Programs: Addressing the Challenges of Identification, Fidelity, Cost-effectiveness and Sustainability; Development of Tools for the Assessment of Depression; Addressing Mental Health Needs of Victims of Disasters and Trauma; Resources for Physical Injury in Child Abuse; Developing Test Batteries to Assess Subtle HIV Associated Neuropsychologic Impairment. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS): Development of Pain Model Systems and Assessment Tools. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP): Family-Based Detection of Hereditary Hemochromatosis; Developing a Plan to Promote 5 A Day in New Channels; Developing an Instrument to Monitor Pedestrian Activity; Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Conditions (Self Management, Exercise Equipment Evaluation, Physician and Other Health Care Provider Education/Training); Development and Evaluation of Innovative Community Approaches for Self-Management Training; Role of Lipoprotein Subfractions in Risk for Complications of Diabetes; Methodology for Imputing Missing Data in Nationally Representative Surveys; Validation of Measuring Diabetes Preventive Care Practices; Examine Approaches for Effectively Translating Successful Community Interventions Into Widespread Practice; High through-put method to isolate tobacco and tobacco-derived cigarette components; Method to screen tobacco products for reduced-harm or reduced-exposure claims. National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID): Development of Innovative Host-Targeted, Systemic Flea Control Products that Contain Insect Growth Regulators; Detecting West Nile Virus and Other Arboviruses of Public Health Importance in Mosquito and Non-Human Vertebrate Samples Used in Surveillance Programs. National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH): Environmental Hazards and Health Effects; Emergency and Environmental Health Services; Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences. National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP): CD-ROM for Patient Counseling; "Can You Adequately Assess Your Clients' HIV/STD Risk?"; Develop a Video Targeting Teen Girls and Young Adult Women Thinking about Reducing Sexually Transmitted Disease in Pregnancy; "Factorial Survey Tool for Gathering Detailed Data"; Syphilis Risk Awareness and Reduction Video; Rapid Assessment of STD Prevention and Treatment Curriculum for Health Educators; Adolescent STD Media Campaign; Training and Health Communications. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC): Reducing the Lethality of Acetaminophen Poisonings through Formulation with Methionine; Reducing the Lethality of Overdoses through Formulation with Two-Part Emetics; Carbon Monoxide Detectors in the Passenger Compartments of Automobiles. The PHS SBIR Contract Solicitation PHS 2001-1, including proposal forms, soon will be available electronically through the National Institutes of Health's "Small Business Funding Opportunities" home page at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm on the World Wide Web. (Note: The PHS 2001-2 Omnibus Solicitation of the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Food and Drug Administration for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) GRANT APPLICATIONS is still open and is available at the same website noted above with a closing date of December 1, 2001.)

Web Link

National Institutes of Health's "Small Business (SBIR/STTR) (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010809/ASOL002.HTM (W-219 SN50U1T6)