The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded $255,700 to Creative Biotherapeutics LLC through its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) on January 15, 2021 to fund the project "SBIR PHASE I: STRESS PATHWAY INHIBITION PREVENTS COVID-19 INFECTION (COVID-19)." This Project Grant will support Creative Biotherapeutics' research efforts through December 31, 2021 to develop inhibitors of stress response pathways to prevent COVID-19 infection. The NSF Engineering...
Nanored LLC received a $246,731 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to support the development of a novel SARS-CoV-2 virus-like particle optimized to deliver shRNA therapeutics from March 1, 2021 through April 30, 2022. The grant aims to prevent and treat COVID-19 infection through a delivery method utilizing virus-like particles to transport self-amplifying short hairpin RNA molecules into cells. The funding will...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) is focused on developing an affordable, portable virus detection platform. The $331,189 project, awarded on April 1, 2025 and running through March 31, 2028, integrates protein engineering and electrochemical biosensor technologies to create a virus detection system that can operate in resource-limited environments. The innovation lies in using stable...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant to White Rock Therapeutics under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support development of an ACE2 decoy as a pan-coronavirus therapeutic from January 2022 to December 2022. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award will fund initial research...
This $450,189 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development and evaluation of computational frameworks to predict and prevent future coronavirus pandemics. The research team at Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf) will prototype deep learning models to forecast viral pathogenic fitness and transmission from genomic sequences, and build geospatial models to...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $200,000 project grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to develop and deliver real-time COVID-19 risk forecasting models and tools for the United States. The grant period runs from January 15, 2021 through December 31, 2021. Under this award, Johns Hopkins will leverage its expertise in epidemiological modeling and public health analytics to provide daily risk assessments of COVID-19...
The National Science Foundation awarded Aural Analytics, Inc. a $256,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant funded the company's "STTR PHASE I: REMOTE ASSESSMENT OF RESPIRATORY FUNCTION IN HOSPITAL PATIENTS BASED ON SPEECH ACOUSTICS (COVID-19)" project from June 15, 2021 to February 28, 2022. The project aimed to develop technology using speech acoustics to remotely assess respiratory function in hospital patients, which has applications for...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,920 to Arclet LLC, a woman-owned small business, aims to develop a scalable platform that enhances the ability of health communicators to deliver effective, culturally and linguistically tailored health messages. The research objectives include developing capabilities to generate and customize health messages, creating a dataset to train artificial intelligence (AI) models,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provided $255,943 to Athem LLC from February 15, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The grant funded the development of a medical device to isolate and purify therapeutic antibodies from recovered COVID-19 donors. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award aimed to advance those goals by...
Diverse Emergent Engineering Prospective-Deep- Designs LLC (the Awardee) received a $275,866 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on February 1, 2021 to develop VIBES, an intelligent application for emotional support during the COVID-19 crisis. The award is being administered under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), which seeks to advance science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies as well...