{"id":8352,"date":"2022-07-29T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2022-07-29T08:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T13:22:38","slug":"join-ibios-letter-urging-congress-to-reauthorize-the-sbir-program-before-the-september-30-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/join-ibios-letter-urging-congress-to-reauthorize-the-sbir-program-before-the-september-30-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Join iBIO&#8217;s Letter Urging Congress to Reauthorize the SBIR Program Before the September 30 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal SBIR\/STTR programs\u00a0are the largest source of early-stage technology financing in the United States and a critical source of funding for Illinois startup ecosystem.\u00a0Typically the SBIR\/STTR program is renewed every 5 years without issue, except for this year.\u00a0The current legislation is set to expire on <b>September 30, 2022<\/b> &#8211; something that would cause great disruption to the grantees already awarded and those pending research funding, as well as to the agencies providing the funding.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The SBIR\/STTR program is an essential part of America\u2019s innovative high-tech ecosystem, and even the threat of a short-term disruption of these programs could have a severe effect on R&amp;D-focused small businesses. Both small businesses and the agencies need certainty, stability, and predictability to budget and plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeJsu6Li4BdOrvoBx8p_tpZnP_nFGaUUo7j0RdVRCkw649XeQ\/viewform\">Please sign-on<\/a> iBIO&#8217;s letter encouraging the Illinois Congressional Delegation to renew\u00a0this essential program.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sign-on Deadline: August 10, 2022\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeJsu6Li4BdOrvoBx8p_tpZnP_nFGaUUo7j0RdVRCkw649XeQ\/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"800\" height=\"2663\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\">Loading\u2026<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal SBIR\/STTR programs\u00a0are the largest source of early-stage technology financing in the United States and a critical source of funding for Illinois startup ecosystem.\u00a0Typically the SBIR\/STTR program is renewed every 5 years without issue, except for this year.\u00a0The current legislation is set to expire on September 30, 2022 &#8211; something that would cause great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8357,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions\/8357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}