Los Angeles-based Larta Insititue (www.larta.org) announced that it has won an award to manage a commercialization assistance program for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). The $2.5M program is intended to help life sciences companies bring their technologies to market, and includes a $844K award to Larta for providing assistance to companies in the areas of business development, funding, government regulatory processes, licensing, and more.