Ms. Kay Etzler joined the National Institutes of Health in 2000 and is currently a Program Analyst in the NIH Office of Extramural Programs where she assists with implementing the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. An area of particular interest to her is developing and managing programs that assist small companies with moving their products into the marketplace. Ms. Etzler previously worked in the Office of Technology and Industrial Relations (OTIR) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) where she was responsible for the coordination of the SBIR and STTR programs across NCI and assisted with the development of industry collaborations for cancer research.

Prior to joining the SBIR/STTR staff at NIH, Ms. Etzler worked as a small business counselor with the North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center.  Here she developed a statewide SBIR/STTR outreach program and assisted individual researchers with how best to utilize Federal research grant programs.  Ms. Etzler also served for eight years as the SBIR/STTR Spokesperson and Administrative Coordinator at the Department of Energy. These experiences provided her the unique opportunity of having worked with SBIR and STTR from both the Federal and small business perspectives.