This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $943,819 to Neocare Innovations, Inc. to develop an integrated biomedical platform and custom algorithm to optimize feeding protocols for preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The project aims to create a device that uses big data on breathing patterns to quantify the synchronization of breathing and swallowing in...
This Project Grant award of $291,523 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop an AI-driven Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) platform for premature newborns in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The key goals are to create standardized TPN units for cost-effective and personalized nutrition, and validate the TPN2.0 platform against the best standard of...
This $768,122 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences will support the development of statistical software to predict adverse medical events in preterm infants using multi-sensor streaming data. The awardee, William D Shannon Consulting LLC doing business as Biorankings, will develop an algorithm to transform sensor data from neonatal intensive care units into graphical representations of associations. Decision rules from statistical process control will then...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $271,443 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to Mammae Biosciences, Inc., a minority-owned, for-profit, woman-owned business and manufacturer, to develop an enzymatic method to produce compounds found in human milk at commercial scale. The goal is to assess an affordable enzymatic process for generating marketable natural compounds usually found in human milk, such as N-acetylglucosamine...
The National Science Foundation awarded Integrated Medical Sensors Inc. a $256,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a novel multi-analyte microsensor platform for continuous wireless monitoring applications. The grant aims to create a unique monolithic semiconductor platform capable of wirelessly monitoring multiple biochemical and physiological markers simultaneously in a sub-cubic millimeter footprint. This miniature,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Sensvita Inc. supports the development of a non-invasive radiofrequency sensing technology for home-based monitoring of heart and lung function. The project aims to design improved antennas, enhance signal processing techniques, and validate the system's accuracy against clinical benchmarks. The anticipated outcome is a robust and reliable sensor capable of...
Lilu Inc. received a $276,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a sensor-based bra that measures breast milk output and monitors changes in breast volume before and after breastfeeding or breast pumping. The NSF grant will support Lilu Inc.'s work from May 2021 through November 2021 to create a wearable technology solution that objectively tracks the impact...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Laser Graphictronics LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Columbia, MO, funds the development of "DigitFOAL", an early labor warning system for safe and successful foal delivery in the equine industry. The project leverages dual wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors and a deep learning algorithm to monitor critical physiological signals in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $304,966 SBIR Phase I Project Grant to Kompass Diagnostics Inc. in Chicago, IL. The grant supports the development of a portable, cost-effective rapid point-of-care diagnostic device that utilizes high-sensitivity biosensors to detect multiple blood-based biomarkers, starting with reproductive hormones. The research objectives include developing an integrated cartridge/analyzer system that automates sample processing, optimizing the system for high...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), through its Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), awarded a $3,653,891 Project Grant to Theranova LLC, a veteran-owned medical device research and development company based in San Francisco, CA. The grant funding will enable Theranova to further develop and commercialize the Entarik system, a low-cost enteral feeding system that provides real-time confirmation of feeding tube location at the bedside during insertion and continuous monitoring...