University-Based, SBIR Resource Sites
These university-based research centers can provide support through their specialized consultants, expensive and specialized equipment and licensing of intellectual property. They are potential partners for Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) applications. Contacts for these units can be found by following the links to their home pages.
University of Nevada, Reno
UNR has more than 60 research centers and facilities, and dozens of state-of-the-art laboratories. The University is also home to the University of Nevada School Of Medicine, where groundbreaking research efforts have been made in several areas of health, including cancer and heart treatments. Nevada’s research enterprise includes the Nevada Terawatt Facility, which houses the most powerful laser on a college campus, one of the most sophisticated large-scale structures laboratories in the country where pioneering earthquake engineering is accomplished, and the most prestigious journal for literature and the environment in the world, ISLE, an Oxford University Press publication which is edited and produced by Nevada faculty members. Among its research centers appropriate for SBIR/STTR include the following:
- Academy for the Environment
- Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies
- Center for Civil Engineering Earthquake Research
- Center for Economic Development
- Center for Neotectonic Studies
- Center for Research in Economic Geology
- Center of Biomedical Research Excellence
- Conservation Genetics Center
- Great Basin Institute
- Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station
- Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
- Nevada Seismological Laboratory
- Nevada Space Grant
- Nevada Terawatt Facility
- Nevada Transgenic Center
- Raggio Research Center
- University Center for Excellence in Development Disabilities
Engineering Labs and Centers
- Active Materials and Processing Lab (AMPL)
- Biomechanics Lab
- BioMedical Lab
- Center for Civil Engineering Earthquake Research
- Computer Vision Laboratory (CVL)
- Electrical Power & Renewable Energy Systems Research Lab
- Electroactive Systems and Control Lab (EASY)
- Evolutionary Computing Systems Laboratory
- Goodman Brain Computation Lab
- High Performance Computation and Visualization Lab
- Nanomaterials Lab
- Neuroevolution and Behavior Laboratory (NEBL)
- Pavements/Materials Research Laboratory
- Robotics Research Laboratory
- Software Engineering Laboratory
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
UNLV’s Division of Research and Graduate Studies is committed to creating a campus environment that supports and promotes the performance of superior research and innovative scholarly pursuits. It is dedicated to helping university faculty, staff, and students continue building UNLV’s reputation as a nationally recognized research institution. It is our intent to help “open the doors” to research for all who wish to recognize their full creative and intellectual potential.
- Biomechanics Laboratory
- Nevada Small Business Development Center
- American Indian Research and Education Center
- Center for Health Disparities Research
- Center for Health Information Analysis
- Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Center for Education Policy Studies
- Center for Research, Evaluation and Assessment
- Center for Mathematics and Science Education
- Cannon Survey Center
- Public Lands Institute
- Center for Energy Materials Interaction Technology Initiative of Nevada (EMITION)
- Center for Energy Research
- Center for Information Technology and Algorithms
- Center for Materials and Structures
- Center for Mechanical and Environmental Systems Technology
- The Lincy Institute (Health Research)
- Brookings Mountain West
- Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies
- National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment
- Applied Geophysics Center / Applied Geophysics Laboratory
- Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics
- Center for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (CAOS)
- Center for Urban Horticulture and Water Conservation
- High Pressure Science and Engineering Center
Technology Transfer Office: http://research.unlv.edu/techtransfer/