Cooperative Agreement 2052393

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) provides $649,763 to Varigen Biosciences Corp to develop the AQPATHDX kit. This novel multiplex molecular diagnostic assay enables rapid, on-site detection of the most common catfish and tilapia pathogens in less than 30 minutes. The AQPATHDX kit utilizes...

The Nucleic Sensing Systems LLC was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). Through this funding, Nucleic Sensing Systems will develop autonomous biosensing technologies to monitor threats from the spread of diseases and pathogens in aquaculture. Specifically, the company will complete...

The $150,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund the development of automated image detection and machine learning systems for aquaculture production by Radmantis LLC. The company aims to pioneer the use of edge computing devices integrated with computer vision and artificial intelligence to autonomously monitor fish farms for early disease detection and permit sorting and handling of fish by...

This $1,016,000.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will fund the development and application of a low-cost, portable biosensing platform for detecting and monitoring waterborne pathogens in aquaculture and coastal environments. The University of Massachusetts Lowell, as the prime awardee, will lead the effort to adapt its patented biosensing technology to enable real-time pathogen detection and...

Coastaloceanvision Inc. was awarded a $300,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop a novel surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) technology for rapidly detecting and quantifying human pathogens in seafood. The SERS technology uses a higher energy laser wavelength, an innovative mixture of silver-coated nanoparticles, and a fiber optic probe designed for direct use on seafood tissues and environmental...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) provides $786,821 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop synthetic microbiome consortia to improve feed efficiency and prevent pathogen colonization in aquaculture systems. The key products and services to be delivered include: Constructing synthetic microbiomes to increase feed efficiency in the brine shrimp, Artemia salina,...

This Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Small Business Innovation Research Program totaling $150,000 will support the development of rapid diagnostic tests for the parasitic infection Amyloodinium ocellatum in fish. Live Advantage Bait, LLC dba Totally Pelagic will utilize next generation approaches to produce highly specific monoclonal antibodies for A. ocellatum dinospores and develop a lateral flow-based rapid diagnostic test. The NOAA SBIR program...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) provides $1,300,000 to Linespect LLC to develop the "HABCamera" - an AI-enhanced system that measures photosynthetic pigments and morphology to automatically identify and count harmful algal bloom (HAB) specimens in water sources. The system combines light sources, lenses, cameras, and environmental sensors to enable...

Aquaculture System Technologies, L.L.C. (AST) received a $169,892 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop "start-up" beads for fixed film biological reactors. The beads are designed to eliminate losses during the acclimation period by stimulating heterotrophic bacterial growth for 3-4 weeks without rapidly increasing dissolved biodegradable concentrations....

The Synthetik Applied Technologies LLC project, funded through a $399,972 two-year Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program, aims to develop a new low-cost hyperspectral imaging module and distributed deep learning platform to combat seafood fraud and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. The SBIR program seeks to stimulate technological innovation to meet federal research needs and increase...