Healthcare company-building profile
I-Corps at NIH
National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research / NIH SEED
AcceleratorGovernment or nonprofit acceleratorNonprofitActive
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Government or nonprofit accelerator
- Organization
- National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research / NIH SEED
- Organization type
- Nonprofit
- Location
- Bethesda, Maryland
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Cohort-based entrepreneurial training for NIH Phase I SBIR/STTR awardee teams (PI, entrepreneurial lead, industry mentor); multi-week curriculum with customer discovery interview requirements
- Investment or funding offered
- Yes
- Published investment terms
- Non-dilutive; delivered as training tied to existing SBIR/STTR awards, with administrative supplement support rather than equity investment
- Equity or fee model
- No equity
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2014
Public description
About the program
I-Corps at NIH is an entrepreneurship training program that provides commercialization training to NIH Phase I SBIR/STTR awardees. Teams of the principal investigator, an entrepreneurial lead and an industry mentor run structured customer discovery interviews over an intensive cohort curriculum adapted from the NSF I-Corps model for life sciences and regulated medical products. Participation is offered through NIH Guide notices to eligible small business awardees across NIH institutes.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Biomedical commercializationTherapeuticsDiagnosticsMedical devicesDigital health
- Category: Government or nonprofit accelerator
- Program structure: Cohort-based entrepreneurial training for NIH Phase I SBIR/STTR awardee teams (PI, entrepreneurial lead, industry mentor); multi-week curriculum with customer discovery interview requirements
- Published terms: Non-dilutive; delivered as training tied to existing SBIR/STTR awards, with administrative supplement support rather than equity investment
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