The Scientific Business Development and Management Program enables 21st century academic researchers to develop the business management and legal skill sets to plan, execute, evaluate, and transition a Transboundary Animal Disease (TAD) Research and Development (R&D) technology to the global marketplace.
This international program targets graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and early career faculty, including industry and academic scientists interested in understanding the business regulations, federal and international processes, and research requirements for taking basic and/or applied high consequence TAD research through the “valley of death” to technology transition.
- Develop future Homeland Security professionals who can act with global, applied, and commercial capacity to transition new TAD Department of Homeland Security (DHS) R&D technologies for stakeholder use
- Understand how technology transition occurs to validate the biological product and/or concepts through the research development testing and evaluation cycle
- Develop and complete a business plan to take a biological product and/or concept to the global marketplace
The program consists of the following components that target commercialization for biological countermeasures (i.e., vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics, and biologically relevant specimens):
- Targeted R&D technology transition online course modules
- Bench: Developing a Strategic Plan of Work
- Technology Transition: Biological Product and Component Validation
- Business: Transition of a TAD R&D Product
- Experiential short courses:
- From the Bench to the Shop: Technology Transition to the Global Marketplace
- Scenario-based follow on projects
- Program evaluation
Sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), this program trains a cadre of groups to increase the resiliency for DHS S&T’s R&D global effectiveness of the entire Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE) to develop biological countermeasures using partnerships and facilities globally.