Project Grant 20203361031688

Adelphi Technology Inc. received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop a portable analyzer for ultra-sensitive detection and quantification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in shellfish. The funding was provided through the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program under Assistance Listing 11.021, which seeks to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector and strengthen the role of small businesses in meeting...

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...

Mimetics, LLC received a $149,191 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the Small Business Innovation Research Program. The grant funded the development of yeast-based biosensors for detecting pathogenic bacteria in aquaculture systems from September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. The Small Business Innovation Research Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector and strengthen the role of small businesses in meeting...

Coastaloceanvision Inc. was awarded a $300,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop a novel surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) technology for rapidly detecting and quantifying human pathogens in seafood. The SERS technology uses a higher energy laser wavelength, an innovative mixture of silver-coated nanoparticles, and a fiber optic probe designed for direct use on seafood tissues and environmental...

Materials Nova LLC received a $314,745 Project Grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), awarded on September 17, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2026. The company will develop a portable, user-friendly mercury sensor device designed to detect low concentrations of toxic mercury contaminants in drinking water with high sensitivity and rapid results. The device will integrate water sampling, sample...

Hummingbird Nano, Inc. received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop an innovative microfluidic pressure-based methodology to significantly reduce the binding time for microcystin detection assays while increasing sensitivity. Microcystins are hepatotoxins produced by harmful algal blooms that can devastate ecological and economic systems when blooms occur on a large scale....

The Nucleic Sensing Systems LLC was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). Through this funding, Nucleic Sensing Systems will develop autonomous biosensing technologies to monitor threats from the spread of diseases and pathogens in aquaculture. Specifically, the company will complete...

This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program aims to develop a novel human stem cell-based microfluidic developmental toxicology platform. The University of Michigan will receive funding from September 2022 to August 2024 to conduct technological development of a repeatable, controllable, high-throughput microfluidic system for generating three-dimensional multicellular organoid models for toxicity testing. The platform seeks...

This Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Small Business Innovation Research Program totaling $150,000 will support the development of rapid diagnostic tests for the parasitic infection Amyloodinium ocellatum in fish. Live Advantage Bait, LLC dba Totally Pelagic will utilize next generation approaches to produce highly specific monoclonal antibodies for A. ocellatum dinospores and develop a lateral flow-based rapid diagnostic test. The NOAA SBIR program...

Elder Research Inc. received a $149,992 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop HABssed, a portable, reliable, and low-cost pipeline for detecting harmful algal blooms in the field using third generation sequencing with the Oxford Nanopore Minion device. The company will demonstrate the efficacy of this approach by sequencing existing environmental DNA samples collected from Lake Erie before,...