Project Grant 20193361029775

Project Grant Summary: In-Fermenter Cell Datastreams The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Trustees of Boston University $449,999 on November 1, 2025, to develop a novel class of wireless, free-floating biosensors for real-time monitoring of microbial fermentation processes. The primary deliverable is an integrated sensing platform that combines miniaturized complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-based...

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....

Microsensor Labs, LLC received a $181,500 Phase I Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212), awarded on September 30, 2025. The company will develop and validate MagiCyte MB, a fully automated, high-speed, and cost-effective system designed to rapidly detect, isolate, and enumerate Salmonella from poultry products. The research leverages novel biological...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences grant award provides $2,225,964 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) to develop a novel biosensing platform called "protocell communities" that can be used for rapid, low-cost medical diagnostics. The project aims to create a tool that can diagnose medical conditions by detecting and integrating multiple indicator molecules, addressing limitations of single-analyte diagnostics. The protocell technology uses...

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...

This $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of engineered microbial sensors for assessing water quality. The primary objective is to create new low-cost sensing systems that can detect chemicals in water throughout the water cycle, including wastewater treatment, drinking water, industrial use, and stormwater discharges. The project employs a convergence research...

Federal Grant Award Summary Scanogen Inc., a minority-owned small business, received a $969,449 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) on September 17, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The award funds a Commercialization Readiness Pilot program to advance an automated diagnostic platform for rapid yeast bloodstream infection detection directly from whole...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award supports the development of a novel device that can rapidly and automatically extract pathogen DNA from whole blood samples to enable faster diagnosis of sepsis. The $274,858 award to New England Hemolytics, Inc., with a project period from September 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025, will fund the testing and optimization of this technology across common sepsis-causing pathogens. The...

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...