Jo Anne Goodnight
SBIR/STTR Program Coordinator
National Institutes of Health
6705 Rockledge Drive, Room 3534
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 435-2688
Fax: (301) 480-0146
E-mail: jg128w@nih.gov
Website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm

Ms. Goodnight currently holds the position as the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Coordinator of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Public Health Service. She has held this position, which is located in the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER), Office of the Director, since March 1999. Prior to joining OER, she served in positions encompassing research, program administration and program management. During nearly 20 years of Government service she has held positions in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration, and now the NIH. As part of her Virginia Tech education (1978-1983), she spent four years conducting research as a Cooperative Education student at the USDA's Animal Parasitology Institute. While at NIH, she has been a part of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Intramural Research Program as a research scientist (1989 -1994) and the NCI's Extramural Research Program (1994 - 1999). As an intramural scientist, she published over 20 studies about the selective involvement of Protein Kinase C in differentiation and neoplastic transformation. She joined the NCI's Extramural Research Program in 1994 where she served as a Special Assistant to the Director, Division of Cancer Biology and Program Director for SBIR/STTR grants that supported studies in the field of cancer biology, cancer genetics, and cancer immunology as well as the SBIR/STTR Program Policy Coordinator for the entire NCI. She was appointed as the NIH SBIR/STTR Program Coordinator in 1999 where she continues today.

She was intimately involved in the development and implementation of the NIH SBIR/STTR Fast-Track Program and continues to develop other programs that assist the small business community in commercialization of their technologies. She has been an invited participant in numerous SBIR/STTR Conferences to discuss funding opportunities for small businesses through the NIH. She also has provided written and oral testimony at Congressional hearings related to the reauthorization of the SBIR and STTR Programs.

Ms. Goodnight has received several national awards including an NIH Merit Award (1998) for her "exemplary contributions in the administration and coordination of the extramural research programs of the Division of Cancer Biology" and a Tibbetts award (2002) from the Small Business Administration for her "leadership role in making the SBIR and STTR programs more accessible, more relevant, and more effective."

Ms. Goodnight received a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from Virginia Tech in 1983.

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