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Population Research

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Total Assistance, FY 2008 to Present
Agency:
Assistance Type: Project Grants.
Popular Name: Population Research
Assistance Listing Number
93.864

Objectives: To seek solutions to the fundamental problems of the reproductive processes; to strive to develop and evaluate safer and more effective contraceptives; and to understand how population structure and change affect the health and well-being of individuals and society. The Center for Population Research (CPR) supports biomedical research in the reproductive sciences, clinical and epidemiological studies of contraceptives and the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including HIV, and behavioral and demographic studies on population processes and structure. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: To expand and improve the SBIR program; to increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development; to increase small business participation in Federal research and development; and to foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological innovation. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program: To stimulate and foster scientific and technological innovation through cooperative research development carried out between small business concerns and research institutions; to foster technology transfer between small business concerns and research institutions; to increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development; and to foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological innovation.

 
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