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National SBIR funding conference set for RTP.

More than 500 biotechnology entrepreneurs and other startup business people from across North Carolina and throughout the United States will gather in Research Triangle Park April 30 through May 3 for the state's first such "how-to" session on startup funding.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) National Conference is to bring together entrepreneurs, university faculty, and potential collaborators to learn how to tap into the $2.2 billion available from the government's SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. The conferences have been hel

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