The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $359,995 Project Grant under the "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" (CFDA 93.286) program to Clemson University. The funding supports the development and validation of a novel X-ray visualized immunosensor (X-VIS) that can be attached to implanted medical devices to detect and monitor local infection biomarkers. The project aims to fabricate a...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $780,034 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop new chemoenzymatic methods for synthesizing infection-targeted PET radiotracers from the common oncologic tracer 2-deoxy-[18F]-fluoro-D-glucose ([18F]FDG). The goal is to increase access to new PET imaging tools for detecting Staphylococcus...
This $295,308 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 program (CFDA 93.286), will support the development and validation of a novel class of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) probes for rapid identification of infectious disease agents. The awardee, Actoprobe LLC, aims to dramatically improve the sensitivity and spatial resolution of scanning...
This 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 program (CFDA 93.286), will support the development of chemical probes to enable imaging and phototherapeutic treatment of otitis media (OM), a common middle ear infection primarily affecting children. The $496,496 award to The Leland Stanford Junior University will fund research focused on three...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the federal Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), provides $174,375.00 to The Johns Hopkins University from December 5, 2024 to November 30, 2027. The project aims to develop new methods for incorporating the radioactive isotope fluorine-18 into complex biomolecules using metal-fluorine bond formation. This will...
This $821,426 Project Grant, awarded on January 16, 2025 by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under CFDA 93.286 - Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health, is funding research to develop nanostructures that selectively target bacteria and create computational models to predict their activity and behavior. The key objectives are to: Use computer-guided design to create and test antimicrobial nanostructures against...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the federal Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), is funding the development of a laparoscopic probe prototype designed for detecting 511 keV gamma rays from PET tracers. The key products to be delivered include: Improving an initial larger-diameter prototype by testing different geometries and materials to optimize the...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $275,773 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to Dropletpharm Inc., a for-profit company. The grant supports Dropletpharm's development of microfluidic technologies to enable low-cost and distributed manufacturing of radiopharmaceuticals for clinical and research applications. Specifically, the project aims to expand...
This federal 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 program (CFDA 93.286), provides $762,697.18 to support research at the University of Pennsylvania focused on developing new radiofluorination methods to rapidly access fluorine-18 labeled organic molecules for PET imaging agents. The key objectives are to: 1) optimize a protocol for amide...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $1,149,264 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The grant, awarded on March 1, 2025 with a final completion date of February 28, 2029, will support the development of a rapid, inexpensive microfluidics-based approach for dose-on-demand production of ready-to-inject...