Project Grant 2136428
- This $991,832 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a novel rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) platform by Astek Diagnostics Inc., a minority-owned small business in Halethorpe, Maryland. The project aims to adapt the company's previously developed urine cartridge technology for use with cerebrospinal fluid and wound effluent specimens, characterize...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $305,000 SBIR Phase I Project Grant to Giant Biosystems Inc. on March 1, 2025. The project aims to develop a rapid, point-of-care antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) kit that can provide results on the same day a sample is taken. This is expected to help physicians utilize the most effective antibiotics sooner, reducing antimicrobial resistance and associated economic burdens. The proposed microfluidic platform is designed to generate...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $305,000.00 to Resonantia Diagnostics, Inc. to develop a transformative diagnostic platform for rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of pathogens. The project aims to achieve three key technical objectives: (1) demonstrate accurate antimicrobial susceptibility testing at very low pathogen loads, (2) validate testing...
- Kepley Biosystems Inc. received a $255,834 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award period runs from May 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021 to support the development of a rapid, sensitive pathogen typing and antibiotic sensitivity test for bloodstream infections, including COVID-19. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $550,000 project grant to the University of California, Berkeley to develop a miniaturized, sensitive, and user-friendly biosensing platform for rapid bacterial infection diagnostics. The award, effective April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2030, aims to create an integrated circuit (IC) chip and microfluidic system that combines physics-based dielectric spectroscopy and biochemistry-based magnetic nanoparticle...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Cooperative Agreement award of $984,381 to Cobio Diagnostics Inc. in Aurora, Colorado aims to expand a diagnostic tool that enables rapid, direct-from-specimen identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of major bloodborne bacterial pathogens. The project will develop a regulatory pathway for FDA clearance, characterize antibodies to expand the test, and validate the expanded tests...
- Cobio Diagnostics Inc. received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2021 to support work concluding on March 31, 2022. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Specifically, the grant funds Cobio Diagnostics' "SBIR PHASE I: PHAGE-AMPLIFIED IDENTIFICATION AND ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TEST" project. This...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award supports the development of a novel device that can rapidly and automatically extract pathogen DNA from whole blood samples to enable faster diagnosis of sepsis. The $274,858 award to New England Hemolytics, Inc., with a project period from September 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025, will fund the testing and optimization of this technology across common sepsis-causing pathogens. The...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 aims to develop a platform for detecting genetic antibiotic resistance motifs that can predict current and future susceptibility to therapeutics. The project will establish the feasibility of leveraging mutational signatures in bacterial DNA to identify antibiotic resistance status, including the potential for rapid development of multi-drug resistance. This approach...
- Nanopath Inc. received a $255,874 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation on January 1, 2022 for its "Integrated Point-of-Care System for Rapid Pathogen Identification in Urinary Tract Infections" project. The award is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Under the award, Nanopath will develop an integrated...
Astek Diagnostics Inc. received a $255,975 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation on December 15, 2021 to support work completing August 31, 2022. The grant funds the development of rapid detection methods and determination of antibiotic resistance for blood-borne bacteria under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation in engineering research and development. This award supports Astek Diagnostics' efforts to advance those goals through expediting the identification of bacteria in blood samples and assessing which antibiotics infected patients are resistant to, both of which could help optimize treatment selection and outcomes. Work is being performed in Halethorpe, Maryland.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $256.0k | 12/8/21 |