This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) provides $1,498,158 to Synaptic Health LLC to develop a prototype device that promotes healthy sleep architecture, specifically slow wave sleep, in Alzheimer's disease patients. The goal is to create a low-profile medical device that can sense sleep stages and provide peripheral neuromodulation stimulation to improve sleep quality and duration in individuals over 65 who are at high risk...
This $295,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) supports Neurogeneces, Inc., a small business, in developing a machine learning algorithm to assess "brain age" from at-home EEG sleep data. The goal is to provide an objective, interpretable measure of age-adjusted brain function that can facilitate early detection of cognitive decline. Through this Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) project, Neurogeneces will...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant to Lumostech, Inc. under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a smart sleep mask and mobile application to improve sleep for adolescents. The one-year project will apply light flash technology delivered through a sleep mask to advance teenagers' circadian phases without disrupting daytime activities. Cognitive behavioral therapy delivered via mobile...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $255,851 awarded on September 15, 2022 will support the development of a neuromodulation device to promote healthy sleep cycles through the completion of prototype engineering. The awardee, Neurolight Inc. of Suffern, New York, will utilize controlled light and sound stimuli delivered via an externally worn system to transpose normal brain wave patterns associated with desired sleep states into recipients suffering from sleep disorders. This aims...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $274,970 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Censyn, Inc. on November 15, 2023 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The award is for the development of a portable, handheld electroencephalogram (EEG) device designed to provide a rapid, quantifiable assessment of concussions and facilitate faster access to proper patient care. The project aims to overcome limitations of current...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award provides $160,000 in funding to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigation into how sleep facilitates the integration of new and existing memories. The goal is to understand the brain mechanisms that enable this integration process, which is critical for building knowledge from new information encountered in daily life. The study will use electroencephalography (EEG),...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Project Grant, awarded to Ai-Neotech LLC in the amount of $275,000 on October 1, 2023, supports the development of a novel consumer product that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models applied to electroencephalogram (EEG) data to predict and mitigate the risk of epileptic seizures for patients and their caregivers. The goal is...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) totaling $2,245,769 aims to develop an integrated brain state monitoring system for personalized anesthesia decision support to prevent postoperative delirium in elderly and at-risk patients. The project, awarded to Pascall Systems, Inc., a for-profit medical technology company, focuses on four key objectives: Establishing technical feasibility for integrating the company's FDA-cleared wireless EEG...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to understand how sleep and memory are interconnected in the brain. The $350,000 award, effective September 15, 2024, supports research to measure changes in synaptic connections between neurons during sleep and memory tasks. The project will leverage advanced neurophysiological techniques and statistical tools to track neuronal activity in the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), provides $134,730 to develop EEG biomarkers (EDbs) to predict the future risk of dementia and monitor cognitive decline in older adults. The project aims to leverage deep learning on existing datasets from over 8,000 older adults to construct EDbs using EEG measures across different sleep/wake stages. The...