Cooperative Agreement 2036061

The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,990 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Project Grant to CB Enterprises of Santa Monica, California under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant funds the development of an integrated biomedical platform and custom algorithm to optimize feeding protocols for preterm infants. The platform utilizes sensors and data analytics to precisely measure infant breathing patterns during feeding, providing...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Pediametrix Inc. received a $1.0 million Project Grant award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) on August 12, 2025, with a completion date of August 11, 2027. The award funds a Commercialization Readiness Pilot project to develop and commercialize SoftSpot TotalCare™, a mobile digital platform for quantitative pediatric cranial evaluation. The solution...

This $768,122 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences will support the development of statistical software to predict adverse medical events in preterm infants using multi-sensor streaming data. The awardee, William D Shannon Consulting LLC doing business as Biorankings, will develop an algorithm to transform sensor data from neonatal intensive care units into graphical representations of associations. Decision rules from statistical process control will then...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop an innovative AI-driven platform for interactive language learning designed for young children. The $303,226 award will fund the creation of a personalized, adaptive solution that uses phoneme recognition and learning algorithms to track, assess, and respond to the individual language progress of each child. The platform is designed...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $943,819 to Neocare Innovations, Inc. to develop an integrated biomedical platform and custom algorithm to optimize feeding protocols for preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The project aims to create a device that uses big data on breathing patterns to quantify the synchronization of breathing and swallowing in...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant award of $275,000 to Adialante L.L.C. focuses on the development of techniques to facilitate the design and fabrication of affordable, compact, and patient-friendly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, particularly for pediatric applications. The project aims to innovate novel B1 imaging approaches, such as Frequency-Encoded and Phase-Encoded Frequency-Modulated Rabi-Encoded Echoes (FREE), that...

The University of Michigan, as the primary recipient of this $598,644 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will conduct a longitudinal research study to develop and validate a non-invasive ultrasound-based diagnostic technique for detecting preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction. The research leverages spectral analysis of umbilical venous pulse wave...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $720,463 Project Grant to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) on July 3, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award funds development of an automated wearable sensor toolkit designed to detect and monitor infant motor deficits within the first few months of life during...

Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded $642,682 through the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to Starship Health Technologies LLC for a one-year Phase I project (September 5, 2025 – September 4, 2026). The award funds development of Pathways Through Pregnancy (PTP), a community-centric intervention designed to reduce severe maternal morbidity (SMM) disparities among low-income pregnant women. The...

Bloomalo LLC was awarded a $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Small Business Innovation Research program. The grant will support development of an artificial intelligence-driven pediatric care platform to enable personalized and coordinated developmental and behavioral care for children. The platform aims to address critical gaps and needs in children's behavioral health by providing evidence-based content, personalized assessments using data-driven...