Center for Translational Research
April 8—From Lab to Launch: Founder and Funder Perspectives on SBIR/STTR: Register Now
Secure non-dilutive funding to translate your invention into real-world impact
The Center for Translational Research (CTR) mission is to bring to market innovations from the CU Boulder, Colorado Springs and Denver campuses (except CU Denver biosciences investigators, who should work with CU Innovations) through non-dilutive funding.
As a resource for startups partnering with or originating from the university seeking non-dilutive funding—including Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) awards—the center advises on best practices for securing non-dilutive capital, provides market research and industry analysis and offers proposal editing and critique. The center aims to secure funding for the translation of university technologies, thereby bolstering the impact of the inventions made on our campus.
Center Services
- Locating appropriate grant mechanisms for a given technology and principal investigator (PI)
- Advising on team formation, company formation and proposal topic strategy
- Coordinating proposal preparation schedule, materials, preliminary work and market research
- Coaching research teams in customer discovery and value proposition generation
- Researching market sectors and differentiating factors of inventions
- Detailing overarching industry trends and forces
- Providing market research and industry analysis
- Aligning the draft proposal with solicitation requirements
- Copyediting the draft proposal for grammatical suggestions and edits
- Advising on proposal structure and arguments
Eligibility for Center Services
The center works with faculty, staff, students and startups in partnership with the University of Colorado. The center is here to support you if:
(A) your commercialization grant application is to develop intellectual property that is eligible for management by Venture Partners,
...or...
(B) a portion of the funded work under your grant application will be performed at CU Boulder.
If you have questions about your eligibility, please contact Sarah Hughes, director of the Center for Translational Research.
