This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support to H Nu Photonics LLC, doing business as HNU Photonics, a small business Limited Liability Company. The $999,972.00 contract is for Services - Basic Research under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The research aims to study the effects of microgravity on neuronal function, including microtubule structure, neurite outgrowth, and intracellular vesicle trafficking, utilizing a...
This is a delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center to H Nu Photonics LLC, doing business as HNU Photonics, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract is for the Photonics ISS Multipurpose Microscopy Suite (PIMMS) project, which has a firm fixed price of $1,800,000.00 and a completion date of September 21, 2023. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Through this contract, HNU Photonics is studying...
This is a $1,200,000 firm fixed-price delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center to H Nu Photonics LLC, doing business as HNU Photonics, a small business based in Hawaii. The contract is for biochip spacelab user guidance and blight experiments. The award was made on September 22, 2016, with a completion date of September 21, 2021. This contract is not set aside for small businesses. HNU Photonics is a small business that...
This is a $143,190 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Armstrong Flight Research Center to H Nu Photonics LLC, doing business as HNU Photonics, to develop the BioChip SuborbitalLab (BCSOL). The BCSOL is an automated microfluidic and imaging platform designed to observe live-cell function in real-time during sub-orbital spaceflight in order to study the effects of microgravity on human physiology. The research aims to elucidate the...
This is a $40,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Imec USA Nanoelectronics Design Center, Inc., a non-profit research organization. The grant covers three research projects focused on studying the effects of microgravity on ophthalmic complications, cerebrospinal fluid production, and intracranial pressure, all of which are relevant to crew health and performance during space exploration missions. The projects were awarded in response to separate...
This federal award is a grant for $994,678 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), doing business as the Office of Research Administration. The grant supports research on the effects of real microgravity on human neural stem cells and oligodendrocytes, aimed at understanding the causes of increased intracranial pressure and visual impairment observed in astronauts after long-duration space missions. The research will...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC20K0330, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The $2,441,292.00 grant is for the development of "PHOTON COUNTING NIR LMAPD ARRAYS FOR ULTRA-LOW BACKGROUND SPACE OBSERVATIONS," which aligns with NASA's Planetary Science Division. The University of Hawaii has significant expertise in astronomy and space science, as evidenced by its...
This contract award, valued at $482,623.65, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Imec USA Nanoelectronics Design Center, Inc., a non-profit research organization, to conduct electrophysiology recording of neuronal networks during suborbital spaceflight. The award is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation. Imec USA Nanoelectronics Design Center, Inc. is a subsidiary of Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum (Imec), a non-profit research...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AK30A, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) for research infrastructure development in Guam and Hawaii. The $524,901.10 grant supports three key objectives: (1) encouraging NASA research projects and infrastructure development on Guam, such as a satellite ground station, planetarium upgrades, and small satellite software development; (2) expanding the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory's...
In August 2018, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $270,000.00 grant to President and Fellows of Harvard College, operating as Harvard University, for the ACE-M2R experiment conducted on the International Space Station (ISS). The grant funds a long-term microgravity study of a colloid-polymer sample using the new confocal microscopy capabilities of the Light Microscopy Module (LMM) in the Fluids Integration Rack (FIR). This builds on previous fluorescence...