Amy F. Boggs, Ph.D.
Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Consulting
Dr. Boggs is an independent consultant with more than ten years experience in anti-infective drug discovery and development. In addition to grant-writing, she provides companies with help in the preparation of technical reports, INDs and NDAs, technology assessment, strategic research planning, and competitive landscaping. Prior to her work as a consultant, Dr. Boggs worked at Microcide and at IntraBiotics, where she managed an interdisciplinary technology in-licensing team that resulted in three screening technology partnerships and two product in-licenses. Dr. Boggs is an inventor on three issued patents and has worked on investigational new drug (IND)-enabling projects. Dr. Boggs received her Bachelor’s degree with high honors in Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California at San Francisco under Dr. David Agard, with a dissertation on protein structure-function, folding, and extracellular secretion.

Amy F. Boggs Ph.D.
phone: 650-322-3602
amboggs@attglobal.net

Forrest Blocker, Ph.D.
Forrest Blocker, Ph.D., formerly on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, with 20 years of experience in drug discovery and structural biology. In academia, she wrote extensively on structural determination of macromolecules using NMR and theory. She is passionate about helping startup companies acquire funding. A native California, she was educated at UCSD, UCSF, and completed post doctoral research at The Scripps Research Institute. She also served as a pulsed power physicist for four years at L3 Pulse Sciences (formerly Physics International) in San Leandro. She has a long standing collaborative relationship with a wide range of Bay Area scientists, engineers, and consultants. In this role, she provides government and private grant and contract writing, technology assessment, competitive landscaping, business plan preparation, and market research. She is trained in Experiment Physics and Biophysics, and has extensive experience in experimental physics and engineering, nanotechnology, computer software and programming, statistical and data analysis, and editing and publishing. She has managed teams of medical writers, hardware technicians, and students. Forrest is currently the President of the Northern California chapter of the American Medical Writer's Association. Areas of expertise include:

• Biologic and small molecule therapeutics
  
• Medical devices
  
• Sensors
  
• Nanotechnology
  
• Cleantech
  
• Biomarkers

Forrest Blocker, Ph.D.
PharmStatus Consulting
San Francisco, CA
phone: 415-235-0791
f_blocker@pharmstatus.com
www.pharmstatus.com

Tina Huth, MBA
R&D Business Solutions, LLC (RDBSLLC) is a consulting firm that delivers professional grant and contract services to high-tech, biotech, and defense firms that are pursuing funding opportunities for innovative R&D projects.

With over 15 years experience in the grant industry, we continue to work with major players within defense, biotech, and high-tech industries across the U.S. and have secured over $100 million in federal and state R&D grants specializing in federal and state grant programs such as SBIR/STTR, NIST-ATP, DoD BAAs, CIRM, CCAT, Stimulus Funding Initiatives, NIH and NSF basic research grant programs. Grant and contract services include the following:

• Funding searches and strategies
  
• Electronic proposal registration and submission
  
• Proposal development and application preparation – budget, agency forms, research plan, commercialization plans
  
• Post-award grant management and administration

Tina Huth, MBA
R&D Business Solutions, LLC
Phone: 858.756.6275
thuth@rndbs.com
www.rndbs.com

Fabiani & Company
Fabiani & Company has extensive experience navigating the funding streams that flow from the federal government. We are skilled at identifying opportunities hidden in the labyrinth of government programs.

Fabiani & Company’s Life Sciences team is dedicated to:

• Strategically matching life sciences companies with sources of Federal funding
  
• Facilitating strategic government and non-government research partnership
  
• Ensuring government validation of novel technologies and clinical procedural protocols

Fabiani & Company has successfully helped to increase the value of its clients’ companies through:

• Funding to support basic research, clinical trials and government procurement
  
• Funding to support basic research, clinical trials and government procurement

Fabiani & Company
Phone: 202.756.4994
info@fabiani-co.com
www.fabiani-co.com

Additional Resources:

Rebecca L. Palmer, M.S.
Shauna Farr-Jones