Office Hours with Merrie London, SBIR Manager at Connecticut Innovations
The Office of the Vice President for Research invites you to Office Hours with Merrie London to learn how to access Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) support.
SBIR grants offer an opportunity to further your research for an applied outcome or work as a partner with industry. The SBIR/STTR Program awards over $2 billion each year to small U.S. companies developing game-changing innovation.
Merrie London is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Manager at Connecticut Innovations. Merrie provides strategic insight to faculty, postdocs and grad students seeking SBIR grants, as well as providing information on matching those funds through Connecticut Innovations. Faculty with federal grants may learn new leveraging strategies through conversations with Merrie.
Merrie can provide:
- Individual one-on-one support and strategies on how to get started;
- Technology assessment reports on your innovation;
- Information on Matching grant funding – SBIR Acceleration and Commercialization Program;
- Information on events/workshops/networking in your specific area of interest;
- Conference reimbursements and SBIR/STTR accounting support;
- Mentoring.
Next Office hours are:
November 18th at the Cell & Genome Sciences Bldg., Room 1647 - 400 Farmington Ave., Farmington, CT 06032
November 24th at the UConn Storrs campus (location to be determined)
Please, contact Ana Fidantsef, fidantsef@uchc.edu to set up Office Hours.
Please, see this link for more information: http://www.ctinnovations.com/sbiprogram/grantsupport
For more information, contact: Ana Fidantsef at fidantsef@uchc.edu