Project Grant HT94252310800

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $249,999 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for the development of a smart dental implant system. The award will support research and educational activities from September 2022 through August 2025. Specifically, the grantee will build a strategy to prevent peri-implant disease through enhancing soft tissue immunity near dental implants. They will develop an ambulatory care platform...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Poly Orth International, under the direction of principal investigator Mark Pitkin, received a $1.188 million Project Grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.846) awarded September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. The award supports translational pre-clinical research and development of the 3D-Printed Skin and...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded Massachusetts General Hospital a Project Grant of $408,951 under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) on February 15, 2026, with completion scheduled for February 14, 2028. The award funds research and development of Photochemical Tissue Passivation (PTP), an innovative therapeutic approach designed to prevent the progression of temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Pittsburgh received a $679,631 Project Grant awarded on February 15, 2026, through the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121). The award funds research into novel treatment approaches for peri-implantitis (PI), an inflammatory condition affecting approximately 5-10% of the roughly 500,000 dental implants placed annually in the United States. The research...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program totaling $295,247 will support the development of an innovative medical technology for localized and sustained antibiotic treatment of periprosthetic joint infection. Specifically, the awardee Reselute will design, develop, and validate a proof of concept for an orthopedic spacer implant with a novel porous medium capable of controlled antibiotic elution over 180 days. The implantable...

This $384,863 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" (CFDA 93.286) program supports research to develop a novel radiotracer imaging agent for detecting Gram-positive bacterial infections associated with implanted medical devices. The key products and services to be delivered include: In vitro testing of a bivalent radiotracer agent...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Rytek Medical Inc. received a $220,000 Project Grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121), awarded on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2027. The grant supports the development and evaluation of computed tomography (CT) and X-ray imaging-correlated impedance-based metrics designed to predict surgical osseointegration success and prevent...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $254,360 Project Grant to Quiver Dental, Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a diagnostic device to measure dental implant stability. The one-year award running from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023 aims to complete proof-of-concept demonstration of a reliable and accurate device using vibrational technology to quantify the degree of motion and stability between a dental implant and surrounding...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121), provides $294,505 to support the development and commercialization of a targeted fluorescence dye for intraoperative imaging and precision surgical treatment of head and neck cancer (HNC). The goal is to create a small peptide-based fluorescent probe that can specifically stain HNC tumors to assist surgeons in identifying tumors...

Federal Grant Award Summary Rytek Medical Inc. received a $296,171 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121), effective August 8, 2025, with a completion date of August 7, 2026. The grant supports the development and evaluation of an impedance-based bone assessment technology designed to characterize trabecular bone microarchitecture at dental implant sites. This technology...