OSA Advancing Innovation through Mentorship (AIM) Communication Support Services

Background:

NIH is the nation’s leading medical research agency and the primary federal agency whose mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability by supporting and making medical discoveries. NCATS is the only center at the NIH that focuses exclusively on all aspects of the translation of research with an innovative pipeline of treatment discoveries for all diseases. NCATS brings together a diverse group of scientists to translate basic science conducted elsewhere into products and services that help improve people’s health and lives. NCATS’ mission is to improve health through smarter science that results in better treatments faster for all diseases, rare or common.

Through this contract the Office of Strategic Alliance will use the services of a firm to provide logistical, administrative, evaluation and document development in support of the above stated curriculum. 

General Requirements:

All capable contractors must demonstrate their ability to provide the following requirements:

• Provide certified I-Corp trainers targeted for life sciences community.  
• Possess a deep subject matter expertise and extensive experience with the I-Corps at NIH program focusing on life sciences within the NIH intramural program. 
• Deliver intensive training in business model development and customer validation tools, patterned after the NSF I-Corps program
• Track patent licensing and commercialization deals that course teams and participants established after participating in the AIM program.