Collaborative Funding Opportunities

The Industry Liaison professionals are pivotal in promoting and facilitating academic-industry research partnerships and  assisting in the the pursuit funding for these partnerships. Examples of Federal and State funding opportunities for collaborative research include:

• The (Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CLICK HERE for more information)
• Small Business Technology Transfer  (STTR) Program (CLICK HERE for more information)
• The Michigan Technology TriCorridor  ( www.medc.michigan.org/ttc)
•  National Institutes of Health sponsored  Academic Private Public Partnerships ( http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/concepts/AP4conceptU54.htm)

A variety of NIH programs which have traditionally supported academic investigator proposals now also encourage and support interdisciplinary applications and those with industry collaborators.