This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384) is for the development and demonstration of a platform solution to reduce positive surgical margins, reoperation rates, and local recurrence in cancer surgery. The total award amount is $13,340,331, with a performance period from August 15, 2024 to August 14, 2026. The award funds the creation of a...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $5,913,545.00, was granted by the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384). The project aims to develop a cutting-edge, integrated surgical imaging system that combines photoacoustic, ultrasound, and fluorescence technologies to enable precise real-time differentiation of cancerous and healthy tissues during surgical procedures. The interdisciplinary team...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center, funded under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384), aims to develop an innovative, minimally invasive medical imaging and AI analysis system called "MARGINCALL" that can reduce the need for repeat surgeries by precisely detecting surgical margins and cancer involvement. The $8.9M award to Emory University, with sub-recipients including UC Davis,...
This $9,433,900 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program will enable Tulane University to develop an innovative imaging system capable of rapidly detecting and visualizing residual cancer cells in removed tumor specimens. The project, titled "MAGIC SCAN: Machine Learning-Assisted Gigantic Image Cancer Margin Scanner," aims to create the world's fastest...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center, under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384), aims to develop a suite of tools to enable surgeons to remove solid tumors more completely and accurately. The $8,874,227 award, with a performance period from August 2024 to August 2026, will support the University of Washington in developing and validating these technologies initially for breast and...
This $305,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award supports the development of an innovative breast cancer screening technology by Bired Imaging Inc., a for-profit organization located in Rochester, NY. The project aims to improve early detection of breast cancer, especially in women with dense breast tissue, by using infrared imaging and physics-based AI algorithms to detect malignant...
This $996,367 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and productization of Lumo Imaging LLC's total body photography system and lesion classification software as a medical device for automatic detection of suspicious pigmented skin lesions. The two-year project aims to enable early-stage identification of skin cancers in primary care settings, addressing a...
This is a $11,574,776 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384). The project aims to develop personalized radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging-based diagnosis and targeted cancer treatment. This will be achieved through the design of custom ligands targeted to cancer cell membrane proteins, and the development of two tabletop devices - one for on-site...
The Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center awarded Northeastern University a $4,116,367 Cooperative Agreement under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program to develop a "Fully Integrated Acousto-Optical Electronic-Photonic System for Real-Time In Vivo 3D Photoacoustic Imaging." This system aims to create a new miniature optical photoacoustic imaging platform that can provide high-contrast, real-time, 3D images to assist in the diagnosis and...
This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under the Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research program (CFDA 93.394) provides $568,151 to develop a novel photoacoustic imaging platform for improved detection and characterization of prostate cancer aggressiveness. The project aims to optimize biocompatible photoacoustic contrast agents to enable sensitive tumor detection and quantify clinically relevant imaging biomarkers reflecting the prostate gland microarchitecture and...