"Funding Opportunities for Bioscience Technologies," a workshop sponsored by the Connecticut Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Office, will be held 8:30 a.m.-noon on Tuesday, April 12, in the Anlyan Center, 300 Cedar St.

The event is designed to promote awareness of the availability of grants from the SBIR/STTR, federal government programs to help provide early-stage research and development funding to small technology companies or individual entrepreneurs who form a company. Approximately $600 million is available annually.

Kathleen Shino, acting coordinator of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) SBIR/STTR Program, will keynote the event and provide individual 15-minute sessions to interested groups or individuals later in the workshop. This will be the only visit of the NIH SBIR/STTR to Connecticut in 2005.

Mert Gollaher of Wiggin & Dana will moderate a business panel discussing success stories of several Connecticut-based SBIR/STTR grantees including CAS Medical Systems Inc., MGS Research Inc., L2 Diagnostics LLC and VION Pharmaceuticals. Deb Santy, program manager for the Connecticut SBIR/STTR Program, will provide closing remarks.

Among the topics addressed will be funds available for small business opportunities, ways that universities can be involved as subcontractors and ways faculty can be involved as consultants. The workshop is designed to be useful to entrepreneurs and people who work with growing technology companies, faculty and students interested in commercialization of research, small firms looking for research and development funding in the life sciences, and larger firms interested in partnering opportunities.

The event is free to students, faculty and members of sponsoring organizations with pre-registration online at www.ccat.us/sbir/register.htm. It is open to the public and there is a $25 fee for on-site registration and for non-members.

Sponsors of the event include Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Yale Office of Cooperative Research, CURE, CT Technology Council, BEACON, Yale Entrepreneurial Society, Lyme Properties, Yale Biotechnology Club and Wiggin & Dana law offices.

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