Project Grant 2032176

Federal Grant Award Summary Nano-Beads Protein Innovations, Inc. received a $620,174 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). The award, effective September 1, 2025, through March 31, 2027, funds the development of NANO-AB, an innovative nano-biomaterial solution designed to advance antibody purification technologies. The...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement to Colloidal Metrics Corporation of Mountain View, California under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program (CFDA 11.620) to support innovative emulsion polymerization manufacture of dual-function, calibration spheres over the range of 100 to 400 nanometers in diameter. The agreement period was from August 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. Under this...

This $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program supports the development of a label-free, high-resolution, high-throughput protein screening platform called Vibrational Spectroscopy with Metasurface Optics (VISMO). The technology aims to enable simultaneous, minute-scale measurement of millions of protein samples, which would dramatically improve the lengthy and costly cycles...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Nanoprobes Inc. received a $613,744 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) effective September 1, 2025, through February 28, 2027. The company will develop and deliver a set of innovative combined fluorescent and gold nanoparticle labeling reagents designed to enable correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) applications. These reagents...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded Duke University a $1,530,757 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to acquire a Thermo Fischer Scientific Cryogenic Helios 5 CX DualBeam instrument. This advanced nanofabrication and nano-imaging tool will enable cutting-edge research across materials science disciplines, including the study of optical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties of both natural and engineered...

Colloidal Metrics Corporation will receive $800,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology within the Department of Commerce to develop new particle size standards and provide accurate particle concentration data. The two-year award, beginning October 1, 2022, will support extending Colloidal Metrics' manufacturing capabilities to include 200nm and 400nm polystyrene latex size standards, modeled after its existing high-quality 100nm...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded Zymosense Inc. a $800,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program (CFDA 11.620) for the period of September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. Under this award, Zymosense will optimize its automated pipetting screening tool for assessing single-walled carbon nanotube dispersion and separation processes. In Phase I, the company demonstrated the feasibility of using the...

Award Summary Nanoengineering Corporation received $349,909 in Project Grant funding from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS, CFDA 93.350) for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. The award supports commercialization of a viral vector sizing tool called NanoRanger, a portable benchtop instrument designed to measure adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid sizes at angstrom-scale resolution using proprietary electrospray differential mobility analysis (ES-DMA)...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project award of $274,998 to Magnify Biosciences Inc. aims to develop an automated "AutoMagnify" device that physically expands biological specimens up to 1,000 times in 3D while preserving spatial and molecular integrity. This advancement will enable conventional light microscopes to achieve nanoscale imaging resolution capabilities...

This $548,158 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the acquisition of an atomic force microscopy-based infrared spectroscopy instrument (NanoIR3) at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. The instrument will enable interdisciplinary research at the intersection of biology and surface engineering in fields such as applied biology, bio-inspired engineering, biophysics, chemical engineering, materials science, and nano-engineering. It will provide nanoscale infrared chemical...