Get Assistance Securing Non-Dilutive Funding
If you’re interested in seeking federal government funding (non-dilutive), BioUtah has a program for you! We’ve contracted with Washington DC-based consulting firm G2G Consulting with expertise in connecting companies with grant funding. They can help you!
Please check out the introductory video below and contact Denise Bell at denise@bioutah.org for more information.
Current G2G Report
Access the most current GBG Report, including several non-dilutive government funding opportunities, notices of special interest, and other opportunities by clicking the image above or here.
GBG Report Highlights:
- AI/ML:
- AI/ML in Pre-Clinical Drug Development for Psychiatric Disorders (Pg. 3, Line 5)
Accelerate drug design and optimization for novel psychiatric disease targets and create open-source analytical tools
- PrecisionFDA GenAI Community Challenge (Pg. 3, Line 6)
Democratize and demystify GenAI by engaging FDA and public data scientists to help develop innovative GenAI tools and solutions
- Bioengineering: DARPA Hybridizing Biology and Robotics through Integration for Deployable Systems (HyBRIDS) (Pg. 3, Line 8)
Examine how synthetic and biological components can be integrated to enable biohybrid platforms that outperform traditional robotic systems
- Biomedical Research :
- EHI Initiative (Pg. 4, Line 10)
ARPA-H aims to increase access to government research funding and address healthcare gaps in the U.S. for early career investigators and community innovators for select topics
- MTEC FY2025 Multi-Topic Call (Pg. 4, Line 11)
Anticipated focus areas include TBI, Burn Care, Infection Prevention, Pathogen Agnostic Countermeasures for Sepsis, Pharmacogenomics among many more!
- NASA ROSES 2024 (Pg. 5, Line 12)
Space Biology Research Studies – Focus on Precision Health and Space Crops
- Cancer (Pg. 6-8)
NIH opportunities centered on mechanisms of obesity driving cancer, rare cancers across the control continuum, translation of nanotechnology interventions, and many more!
- Therapeutics:
- Proactive Solutions for Prolonging Resilience (PROSPR) (Pg. 19, Line 72)
Focused on identifying biochemical and physiological markers to develop assessment tools that will allow researchers to better understand and target the causes of age-related disease.
- Ultra-Rare Gene-Based Therapy (URGenT) (Pg. 19, Line 73)
- Supports IND-enabling studies and planning activities for FIH clinical testing of gene-based or transcript-directed therapeutics for ultra-rare neurological or neuromuscular disorders
- Women’s Health:
- Innovative Interdisciplinary Research on Female Reproductive Aging (Pg. 20, Line 78)
Identify and understand key biological pathways involved in aging-associated health outcomes in women across the lifespan
- Model Continuums of Care Initiative to Advance Health Equity and End Health Disparities (Pg. 20, Line 79)
Proposes continuum of care approach combining preventive health services, primary care, behavioral health, integrative care, and cardiopulmonary and endocrine specialties for underserved women and girls
Upcoming G2G Webinars:
- Monthly Non-Dilutive Funding: GBG Reporting Service Webinar:
Thursday, January 16, 2025, 10:00-10:30 AM MT (FREE and open to all)
Then, from 10:30-11:00 AM, MDT will be available (premium service and private consultation for BioUtah members, G2G clients, and GBG customers). * Please note the shift in Webinar Day & Time for 2024.
Additional opportunities:
Additionally, G2G would like to highlight some additional opportunities below that may interest BioUtah members. These opportunities are not listed in the monthly GBG Report.
- Defense Innovation On-Ramp. A collaborative initiative to lower the barriers to entry for commercial and dual-use technology into the DoD. More here.
- SBA 2025 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. Seeks to identify impactful and innovative submissions from Entrepreneur Support Organizations to support entrepreneurs and small business owners in undercapitalized regions, industries, and communities. More here.
- NSF Translation and Diffusion (TD). Goals include advancing or moving specific practice, research, or scientific discovery in STEM education reciprocally along the research-practice continuum. More here.
- DOL Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program. Aids employers to encourage employment of women in both apprentice-able occupations and nontraditional occupations including in advanced manufacturing, construction, energy, health care, and IT. More here.
- Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (UAIP). Support innovative agriculture practices and stakeholders in areas where access to fresh foods are limited. More here.
- Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Competitive Grants Program. Funds for improving the farm management knowledge and skills of agricultural producers. More here.
- Regional Biomass Resource Hub (RBRH) Leads: Seeks leader on production and utilization of purpose-grown energy crops. More here.
- NIGMS Small Business Applications Focused on Ed Tools and Tech for Enhancing Biomedical Entrepreneurship. Seeks applications from IDeA states. More here.
- EPSCoR Research Incubators and Infrastructure Improvements Programs. More here & here.
About G2G Consulting
G2G is a bipartisan team of non-dilutive funding experts and government affairs professionals who have spent decades working for and with the government on the federal, state and local levels – successfully representing bioscience, healthcare, and high-tech innovators, entrepreneurs, research institutions, companies and nonprofits in securing$322 million in non-dilutive government funding.
$531M
Raised in
Non-dilutive Funding
80%
Success rate
in securing funding
150
Clients Served
Since 2007
Included for BioUtah Members
As a BioUtah member, you are entitled to the following benefits with G2G Consulting:
- Q&A during monthly webinars
- One-on-one call to review your innovation and access government opportunities
- Questions on how government works, related issues covered by agencies
Paid Follow Ups
- Request for personalized plan or execution of that plan, which is a Strategic Roadmap
- Request for personalized access to G2G’s contacts and high-level officials in government
- Request for personalized shaping of funding levels, policies and/or regulations
G2G Consulting Principal Bios
Liz Powell, ESQ., MPH
Founder & President, G2G Consulting
Liz is originally from the Boston, MA area and has over two decades of experience from working on health, defense, high-tech and economic development issues in Congress and as an attorney and lobbyist. She started G2G in 2007 and manages government relationships and operations in our Washington, D.C. and Ohio offices. Previously, Liz served as the Legislative Director for Congressman Jim Langevin (RI) and Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald (CA) in Washington, D.C., campaign staff for Congressional and presidential campaigns, Public Affairs Manager and lobbyist for a national association called NAADAC, the President of a women’s networking organization called WIN, and the Policy Analyst for the UK Parliament on the Health Committee. As Legislative Director, Liz managed all funding requests in the annual appropriations and National Defense Authorization Act legislative drafting process for the Member. She also staffed the House Armed Services Committee and Small Business Committee work, ran the Congressional Women’s Caucus and launched the Congressional Disabilities Caucus. She has crafted legislation and campaigns to move bills through the process to enactment; built coalitions; ran a PAC (political action committee); and organized media events. Liz co-founded the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s D.C. Alumni Chapter, serves on its Alumni Giving Committee, and is in the Colgate President’s Club. Liz loves government affairs and brings enthusiasm, connections and significant legal, policy and grassroots know-how to all clients.
Greg Kapcar, MPA, LSW
Public Affairs Director, G2G Consulting
Greg Kapcar brings more than two decades of experience and measurable results in public relations, advocacy, public policy, and strategic engagement to the G2G team. Based in Cleveland, he manages business development for G2G and government affairs for clients. For twelve years, Greg worked for the statewide non-profit, OhioGuidestone, which provides behavioral health treatment services, skill-building programs, and prevention opportunities for children and their families. While at OhioGuidestone, he developed a government affairs and public policy program, which focused on improving social welfare policy, and secured more than half a million dollars in appropriations and private grant funding. Greg also lived and worked in Columbus, where he served for seven years as the Legislative Director of the Public Children Services Association of Ohio, a statewide membership association of Ohio’s county Public Children Services Agencies. He led efforts to advance legislative and policy initiatives, resulting in a dozen pieces of legislation being signed into law; facilitated collaborative work across professional disciplines and state departments; and organized membership events, regional and statewide public forums, discussions, training, and planning summits. Most recently, Greg led a small non-profit in Cleveland, managing customer and public relations, advertising and marketing, employee supervision, human resources, and sales. His unique blend of experiences, education and passion as an advocate, social worker, lobbyist and manager make him an asset to the G2G team. Greg has participated in the Executive Leadership Institute at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University and is a member of the Board of Directors for Riverside Cemetery Association.
G2G Case Studies
Isto Biologics (formerly Arteriocyte)
Hopkinton, MA
G2G has worked with Isto Biologics for nearly a decade and secured $11.3 million over 4 years for cellular therapy research, $3 million in FY2012 defense authorization legislation expanding this work, and $25 million for BARDA medical countermeasures contract.
NeuroWave
Cleveland, OH and Fort Myers, FL
G2G worked with Neurowave for one year and secured $5 million for a trauma care device.
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
G2G worked with University of Cincinnati for under two years and secured $6 million directly and another $25 million for related policy initiative all on the federal level of government.
PAST Foundation
Columbus, OH
G2G worked with PAST Foundation for eight years and secured several funding awards totaling $2 million to advance STEM education programming.