West Rock Associates Information

West Rock Associates is a grant recruitment firm run by Dr. Neil Krieger and Maria Paikos-Hantzis that has helped to recruit approximately $50 million for more than 200 clients. We focus on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Defense (DOD) and on Orphan Drug grants from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Neil Krieger, Ph.D. has more than 30 years of grant recruitment experience including as a faculty member and research director at the Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania medical schools. He advises and collaborates with the Principal Investigators and assists with all facets of the proposal. Maria Paikos-Hantzis has an exhaustive knowledge of funding institutions. She works with the client to construct the financial portions of the grants, and she has a complete fluency with the electronic submission process.