This $275,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and evaluation of a novel biometric authentication system by Morphosis Inc., a small disadvantaged business in Berkeley, CA. The project aims to enhance digital security by integrating continuous biometric verification into human-computer interactions, using wearable neural interface technology to capture unique...
Organicsmart Inc. received a $255,786 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a hybrid blockchain technology enabling safe and transparent distribution of perishable goods. The award period runs from March 15, 2022 through October 31, 2022. Specifically, Organicsmart will develop a sensor-aware hybrid blockchain and distributed acyclic graph to securely track transactions and maintain quality for perishable foods throughout the supply...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Irradiant Sensing Corporation aims to develop a novel tactile sensing technology with applications in robotics and biomedical instruments. The project will create a high-resolution, high-force-sensitivity tactile sensor that can enable robots and robotic tools to safely and precisely interact with their environment, including soft biological tissues. This...
The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded Monogram Orthopedics Inc. a $256,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant funds the development of a tracking system for computer assisted surgery from January 1, 2022 to September 30, 2022. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education, the NSF Engineering program supports the creation of new technologies such as Monogram's surgical tracking system, which...
Cogwear LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 15, 2021 to develop physiological brain measurement technologies for anxiety assessment and trend analysis. Funded under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the six-month project will support Cogwear's efforts to improve tools that monitor brain activity to evaluate anxiety levels and patterns over time. The NSF Directorate for Engineering aims to advance innovation and excellence in...
This $228,697 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of an optical biosensor technology to facilitate drug screening and validation efforts. Auctus Biologics, Inc. will utilize a proprietary temperature, pH, and chemically stable protein composed of two fragments that bind with antibody-like affinity and specificity. Over the one-year period ending January 2023, the company will establish the technology's suitability for...
Biochip Labs Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The grant funding supports the company's work to develop standardized and reproducible culture and activation methods for endothelial cells in microfluidic devices for drug screening applications. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and...
This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Johns Hopkins University supports the development of a new "dual-series gate" organic electrochemical transistor (DS-OECT) biosensor technology. The key objectives include material synthesis, device fabrication, computer modeling, and biological fluid analysis to create a highly sensitive and stable sensor capable of reliably detecting protein biomarkers for various...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $467,202 project grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to develop an intelligent lab-on-chip device that can non-invasively monitor the maturation of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in real-time and apply adaptive biophysical stimulation to promote full cell maturation. The interdisciplinary research team from RFCUNY, City College of New York, and Rutgers University plans...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program grant, in the amount of $400,000, supports the development of a tissue-like, converged sensing platform for tracking excitation-contraction dynamics in cardiac organoids. The project aims to: Develop a scalable assembly strategy to fabricate an array of three-dimensional sensor structures using planar semiconducting graphene material, designed to detect both electrical and mechanical stimuli. Evaluate the multifunctional...