Hazardous Substances Research and Training Program – SBIR

The NIEHS Hazardous Substance Basic Research and Training Program utilizes Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants to support basic research directed towards understanding and attenuating the public health effects resulting from exposure to hazardous substances. The SBIR program uses a combination of research, technology transfer (commercially viable products) and communication strategies (technologies to translate and communicate environmental health research) to fulfill the mandate areas of Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986. Areas of research must be within scope of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 and the SARA of 1986 and may include methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment; and basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances.

NOTE: This program does not offer support through the STTR mechanism.

Each applicant for research projects must present a research plan and furnish evidence that scientific competence, facilities, equipment, and supplies are appropriate to carry out the plan. The cost principles for awards under this program are set forth in HHS regulations at 45 CFR 75, Subpart E and Appendix IX (hospitals) to Part 75. Commercial organizations are subject to the cost principles located at 48 CFR 31.2 Federal Acquisition Regulation. See the NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIH GPS) for further guidance on the applicability of cost principals (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/index.htm).