Small Business Expo

September 17, 2026

This part of the NIH Research Festival, hosted by the NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, will feature companies from the NIH small business portfolio that develop research tools for the biomedical research community. More information about these programs is at https://seed.nih.gov.

10:00 a.m. Introduction, Eddie Billingslea, Ph.D.

Morning Session

10:10 a.m. Collaborative Drug Discovery, Peter Gedeck

10:20 a.m. Atomo Health, Kelly Myers

10:30 a.m. Aventusoft, Kaustubh Kale

10:40 a.m. BioTillion, Hanan Davidowitz

10:50 a.m. Bondwell Technologies, David Howell

11:00 a.m. Chromatan Corp., Oleg Shinkazh

11:10 a.m. Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies, Inc., Lin Wang

11:20 a.m. CryoCrate LLC, Xu Han

11:30 a.m. Embrient, Inc., Barry Rothenberg

11:40 a.m. FilamenTech, Momcilo Prodanovic

11:50 a.m. GMJ Technologies, Inc., Tosin Dada

12:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session

1:00 p.m. Hesperos, LLC, Christopher Long

1:10 p.m. IVOS Medical, Gabriel Punsalan

1:20 p.m. LASSARUS, Lloyd Emokpae

1:30 p.m. NanoDe Therapeutics, Inc, Qian Chen

1:40 p.m. Organos, Inc., Sam Wall

1:50 p.m. Ramona Optics Inc., Mark Harfouche

2:00 p.m. SafeBVM, Prathamesh Prahubdesai

2:10 p.m. Tricorder Array Technologies, Robert Tindal

2:20 p.m. Closing Remarks, Eddie Billingslea, Ph.D.

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