By Jason Derry —

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the creation of a new resource to help promote NIH licensed technologies and technologies supported by funds from the NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.  The resource is Web-based and referred to as the NIH Pipeline to Partnerships (P2P).  According to the NIH, the site provides "virtual space for NIH licensees and NIH SBIR/STTR awardees to showcase technology and product development for an audience of potential strategic partners and investors."  The NIH hopes this resource will enable its technologies and those technologies for which it provided funding to move along through the development stages and eventually be commercialized.

Jason Derry, Ph.D., who graduated with honors from DePaul University
College of Law, is a molecular biologist and founding author of Patent Docs.