Cooperative Agreement U01FD007001

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), awarded Labsys LLC a $643,948 Project Grant to develop a wearable continuous drug monitoring device for opioid use disorders (CDM-MOUD). The goal is to create a low-cost, pain-free patch that can monitor medication levels in the interstitial fluid and provide real-time insights into the effectiveness of opioid use disorder treatment protocols. In Phase I, Labsys will engineer an...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), provides $173,700 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to develop specifications for wearable haptic sensory prosthetic devices. The project aims to (1) exploit attributes from both cutaneous and deep tissue sensation to communicate intensity levels, and (2) use 3D printed...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), is funding the development of ODALERT - an innovative wearable device designed to detect and alert users and first responders of potential opioid overdoses. The $800,000 award to Biosensics LLC, a digital health technology company, will support the completion of ODALERT's sensor development, optimization of battery life, deployment of real-time...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering will provide $300,000 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct basic scientific research toward developing a new wearable technology that can capture images through human skin using advanced optical layers. The research aims to create a lightweight, cost-effective, and wearable computational imager and sensor that can enable applications such as counting blood...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant awarded to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) provides $199,991 to develop a novel sweat biosensing platform using aptamer-infused graphene transistor tattoos. The project aims to create a self-administrable, on-demand technology for continuous monitoring of bioanalytes like cortisol in sweat, a non-invasive biofluid that can provide insights into physiological processes. The proposed solution...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), under the Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.846), aims to advance the understanding of how nanogenerator-driven electrical stimulation can accelerate wound healing. The $469,766 project will investigate the cellular-level mechanisms underlying this approach and identify optimal signal and device designs to deliver the desired therapeutic effect....

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded Resilient Lifescience, Inc. a $854,122 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to develop a wearable medical device that can detect opioid-induced respiratory depression and issue an emergency alert. The goal is to create a technology solution that can help ensure rapid administration of the life-saving drug naloxone when an opioid overdose occurs, particularly in situations where the individual is...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $399,541 Project Grant to the Trustees of Dartmouth College to develop a high-throughput, label-free, and portable sensor that can quantitatively detect multiple illicit drugs including opioids, cocaine, psychostimulants, and methadone in liquid samples such as biofluids. The project aims to create a silver or gold nanoparticle-decorated zinc oxide nanorod coated silica nanofiber matrix...

This $295,308 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), will support the development and validation of a novel class of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) probes for rapid identification of infectious disease agents. The awardee, Actoprobe LLC, aims to dramatically improve the sensitivity and spatial resolution of scanning...

This $318,710 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program aims to develop AI-powered wearable sensors for non-invasive monitoring of Parkinson's disease. The key products and services to be delivered include: Computational methods to identify Parkinson's-specific metabolic and peptide biomarkers in sweat, leveraging multi-omics data analysis. Design, fabrication, and optimization of 2D...