This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,000,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Oakgrove Bio LLC aims to scale up a recombinant technology platform that will dramatically decrease the cost of manufacturing peptides. The project seeks to develop novel microbial cell factories to enable more cost-effective peptide production and purification. This effort is expected to accelerate the commercialization of bioactive...
Biotech Naturale Inc. received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. The grant funds the development of a simple, targeted, and flexible method for transferring value-added genes from wild relatives of crop plants. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through fostering innovation...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Pearl Bio, Inc., a biotechnology company, a $274,462 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant funded the development of a next-generation biomanufacturing platform to engineer new microbial organisms and cellular machinery. This platform enables the incorporation of diverse, non-native components into proteins, creating a new class of biological materials for therapeutic development,...
Silvec Biologics Inc. received a $255,990 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award funds research from February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2022 to develop a novel RNA therapy to immunize trees and vines against deadly bacteria. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation in engineering research and...
Omicscraft LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a cloud-based platform for analysis of untargeted metabolomics data. The platform will provide users an interactive modular interface to build customized pipelines for metabolomics data analysis from February 15, 2022 through July 31, 2022. Key deliverables include innovative computational methods for...
Biochip Labs Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The grant funding supports the company's work to develop standardized and reproducible culture and activation methods for endothelial cells in microfluidic devices for drug screening applications. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and...
Exciplex, Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop advanced mycotoxin detection with novel photochemical diagnostics. The one-year project period runs from December 2021 through November 2022. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through fostering innovation,...
Infinifluidics Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant supports development of on-demand continuous and sterile manufacturing of injectable drug delivery systems at industrial scale on a portable microfluidic chip from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovative engineering research and education. This award will allow...
The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded Nabla Bio, Inc. a $256,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The grant funds Nabla Bio's "HIGHLY RESOURCE-EFFICIENT PROTEIN ENGINEERING USING MACHINE LEARNING" project from April 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021. The project aims to develop machine learning techniques to design new proteins with higher efficiency and lower resource requirements compared to conventional...
The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded $256,000 to Biomimics, LLC through a Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) on August 15, 2021. The grant supports the development of biobased and biodegradable superabsorbent polymers through the SBIR Phase I project ending July 31, 2022. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through fostering innovation in engineering research and education. This...