Project Grant 20213353034428
- This $165,507 federal Project Grant award 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) supports the development and validation of an affordable, handheld quantitative fluorometer and colorimeter system. This technology will enable rapid, field-based enumeration of E. coli and antibiotic-resistant E. coli in agricultural water samples, providing a more accessible alternative 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....
- 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...
- This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program provides $175,000 to Heliowave Technologies Inc., a small disadvantaged business in College Station, TX. The funding supports the development of the HELIOCLEAN system, a portable device that uses advanced biosensing reagents and technologies to rapidly, sensitively, and accurately detect harmful foodborne pathogens like E....
- Under this U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 project, Ondavia, Inc. is developing, prototyping, validating, and commercializing an in-line, automated, semi-continuous instrument to monitor and measure the nitrogen cycle in water using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). The $600,000 award supports the assembly and testing of a prototype analyzer for automated, quantitative analysis...
- Ionicscale LLC was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to develop membrane-based inlet systems for compact mass spectrometry-based chemical sensors. The goal of the seven-month project ending February 2024 is to enable risk reduction in deploying low-cost sensors for soil or liquid sampling. Work will focus on designing membrane inlets compatible with...
- This $175,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program supports the development of the Seismi Health Monitoring Device. This innovative, battery-free biosensor is designed to be seamlessly integrated into cattle ear tags to continuously monitor and detect early signs of bovine respiratory disease in feedlot cattle. The project...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212), awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to S4 Mobile Laboratories LLC. The purpose of the award is to extend the generalizability and improve the accuracy and precision of the company's "SubTerra Green" system, a mobile soil laboratory that uses visible/near-infrared spectroscopic probes to...
- This federal Project Grant award of $175,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The award was made to Page Technologies, Inc. (UEI: KEAMUYYN2LD5) on September 1, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by April 30, 2026. The project aims to develop a cost-effective monitoring platform for...
- This USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program award (CFDA 10.212) provides $647,446 to Cache Environmental Laboratories, P.C. to develop and commercially deploy a biochar-based electrochemical impedance PFAS detector technology. The funding supports research and development to create a portable, low-cost device capable of reliably measuring per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances...
EIC Laboratories, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program. The award will support EIC Laboratories' work to develop Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sandwich assays for disease diagnosis in rural areas from July 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. The SBIR/STTR programs are intended to stimulate technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds in small businesses, to build a strong national economy. The assays developed under this award aim to leverage SERS technology to enable more accurate and accessible disease diagnostics for underserved rural communities through February 2022.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $100.0k | 4/5/21 |