Attendees of the 2020 Entrepreneur & Investor Summit can have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with representatives from the National Institute of Health to discuss their company and potential sources of investment capital.
Pitch your technology to Lili Portilla, director of strategic alliances, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and learn about funding opportunities available through federal and private programs.
We recommend coming prepared with either a 1- or 2-page summary of your proposed project or a Specific Aims page. A sample and instructions for writing Specific Aims is available here.
Ms. Portilla has worked in the area of strategic alliances and technology transfer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), since 1989. She has extensive expertise in negotiating and developing collaboration and commercialization strategies for complex, and multi-party alliances and public private partnerships. Since December of 2011, Ms. Portilla has been serving as the Director of the Office of Strategic Alliances at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the NIH. NCATS focuses on the transformation of the translational science process so that new treatments and cures for disease can be delivered to patients faster. She directs the Center’s partnership, strategic alliance, and technology transfer functions as well as the Program Director for the NCATS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Technology Transfer Research grant and contract program.