Growing Great Ideas: Research Education Course in Product Development and Entrepreneurship for Life Science Researchers

Key Facts

Status: Open

Posted date: September 11, 2025

Opportunity ID: 360561

Opportunity number: RFA-DA-27-007

Opportunity category: Discretionary

Agency name: National Institutes of Health

Agency code: HHS-NIH11

Award floor: $0

Award ceiling: $0

Cost sharing required: No

Funding Instrument Types
  • Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity
  • Health
Eligible Applicants
  • City or township governments
  • County governments
  • For-profit organizations other than small businesses
  • Independent school districts
  • Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
  • Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
  • Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • Others
  • Private institutions of higher education
  • Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
  • Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
  • Small businesses
  • Special district governments
  • State governments
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  • status:open
Description

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) seeks to advance its mission by establishing a well-recognized entrepreneurship teaching program with the demonstrated ability and passion to adapt, develop, and deliver a customized, substance use disorder (SUD)-centric curriculum in entrepreneurship and biomedical product development, targeting domestic innovators in the field of SUD research. With the appropriate training and guidance for the drug addiction science workforce, academic researchers will be better equipped with the skills to translate their discoveries into products, thus facilitating groundbreaking solutions generated in academic research to reach the populations they intend to help. The course will focus on early-stage innovation endeavors in preparing drug addiction researchers to recognize the potential of their research ideas and critically assess them for viable product development opportunities; utilize business ideation tools to evaluate the market and understand paths to commercialization; perform customer discovery; establish intellectual property protections; develop approaches to regulatory considerations; understand the reimbursement landscape; source capital, such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding; and generate revenue.Applications are not being solicited at this time. Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop a grant application to include both a proposed curriculum to be delivered in a hybrid format, in which a portion of the course must be offered for in-person attendance, and outreach strategy outlining the plans to recruit US-based SUD researchers and innovators to take part in the course. Grant authorities that allow NIDA to forecast this opportunity are as follows: Section 301 (42 U.S.C. § 241) and Section 405 (42 U.S.C. § 284).

Growing Great Ideas: Research Education Course in Product Development and Entrepreneurship for Life Science Researchers
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) seeks to advance its mission by establishing a well-recognized entrepreneurship teaching program with the demonstrated ability and passion to adapt, develop, and deliver a customized, substance use disorder (SUD)-centric curriculum in entrepreneurship and biomedical product development, targeting domestic innovators in the field of SUD research. With the appropriate training and guidance for the drug addiction science workforce, academic researchers will be better equipped with the skills to translate their discoveries into products, thus facilitating groundbreaking solutions generated in academic research to reach the populations they intend to help. The course will focus on early-stage innovation endeavors in preparing drug addiction researchers to recognize the potential of their research ideas and critically assess them for viable product development opportunities; utilize business ideation tools to evaluate the market and understand paths to commercialization; perform customer discovery; establish intellectual property protections; develop approaches to regulatory considerations; understand the reimbursement landscape; source capital, such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding; and generate revenue.Applications are not being solicited at this time. Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop a grant application to include both a proposed curriculum to be delivered in a hybrid format, in which a portion of the course must be offered for in-person attendance, and outreach strategy outlining the plans to recruit US-based SUD researchers and innovators to take part in the course. Grant authorities that allow NIDA to forecast this opportunity are as follows: Section 301 (42 U.S.C. § 241) and Section 405 (42 U.S.C. § 284).
Growing Great Ideas: Research Education Course in Product Development and Entrepreneurship for Life Science Researchers
Open
National Institutes of Health
Health
Cooperative Agreement
State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Special district governments
Independent school districts
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
For-profit organizations other than small businesses
Small businesses
Others
2025-09-11