Project Grant 201633610256851

This $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Industrial Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), funds the development of a rapid, simple, and low-cost Salmonella detection and quantification test. Secure Food Solutions, Incorporated will optimize a multi-layer 96-well microplate method to demonstrate 90% sensitivity and specificity for Salmonella in raw poultry and processing environment samples within 15 hours without pre-enrichment. They...

This $591,497 federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program, aims to develop a simple, field-based, smartphone-compatible test for detecting Salmonella contamination in food products. The project will integrate light-responsive colorimetric labels with a lateral flow assay (paper-based technology) to enable rapid, sensitive, and quantitative...

This $611,000 project grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA 10.310 program aims to develop a rapid detection kit and mobile app for Salmonella, the most costly foodborne pathogen in the U.S. The grantee, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) at the University at Albany, proposes to create a 6-hour Salmonella detection assay...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop rapid detection technologies and decision support systems to mitigate food supply chain threats from Salmonella contamination. The one-year project will investigate multiple transformative sensing technologies, including surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy sensors, impedance-based biosensors, and...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), funds the development of a novel double-stage filter system to rapidly detect the presence of Salmonella bacteria in food products. The $299,999 award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) aims to engineer an anti-fouling stirred cell device that can filter and collect...

Nanospy Inc. received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation on August 15, 2021 to develop handheld graphene-based sensors for rapid detection of Salmonella species in food processing facilities. The award is part of the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) administered by NSF, which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and innovation. Under the grant, Nanospy will design portable sensors...

This two-year, $999,824 project grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture will support Intralytix Inc.'s efforts to optimize the application of its Salmonella-targeting phage product SalmoFresh in poultry processing facilities. The goals of the award made under the American Rescue Plan Centers of Excellence for Meat and Poultry Processing and Food Safety Research and Innovation Phase III program are to design a customized spray system for applying SalmoFresh, test its...

Tennessee State University was awarded a $588,345 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to develop a new sensing platform for the rapid detection of Salmonella using CRISPR-based systems and 2D MXene-based heterostructure materials. The three-year award running from October 2023 to September 2026 will support research to design specific gRNAs for Salmonella and its serotypes, develop a functional group to attach the dCas9 enzyme to...

Cellbae Inc. received a $174,992 Small Business Innovation Research Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop rapid test kits for the detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica. The goal of the six-month project beginning July 1, 2023 is to verify the sensitivity and specificity of Cellbae's rapid test kit platform, which uses enzymatic amplification to increase detection sensitivity over conventional methods....

The federal Project Grant award R01EB037031, provided by 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 develop living biosensors capable of detecting and analyzing DNA from raw samples without requiring sample purification or specialized equipment. The $257,807 award, spanning from April 2025 to March 2029, will focus on demonstrating the...