Project Grant R21EB036343
- This Project Grant award, totaling $1,455,799.00, was provided by 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. The award is for a research project titled "Miniaturizing Time Resolved Fluorescence Measurements Using Entangled Photons and On-Chip Photonics - Fluorescent Biosensors and Microscopes" at the California Institute of Technology...
- This $147,091 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), supports a research project on plasmonic nanoantenna-enhanced fluorescence immunoassay enabled by super-hydrophobic surfaces. The goal is to develop a transformative fluorescence detection technology that can achieve ultra-low and ultra-sensitive protein detection, which is crucial for early disease diagnosis. The project...
- This federal Project Grant award of $349,566 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), supports the development of a Spotting-Free Nano-Oscillator Array (SFNOA) technology for high-throughput, label-free quantification of ligand binding kinetics to transmembrane proteins in their native states. The key products and services delivered through this award include: Integration of innovative technologies...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Tau Optics Inc. focuses on developing a proof-of-concept prototype for a compact, high-precision volume grating-based spectrometer. The project aims to enhance the performance of rotated chirped Bragg gratings (R-CBGs) to broaden operational bandwidth and improve spectral resolution, enabling more affordable and portable light analysis for applications like...
- The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $456,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to develop high-performing nanoplasmonic biosensors with novel thin films and metasurfaces. The project aims to advance progress in the mathematical and physical sciences through the creation of new sensing technologies under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). By leveraging nanophotonics and nanofabrication...
- 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), will develop living biosensors to detect and analyze DNA at the single-base level without requiring sample purification or specialized equipment. The $565,614 award will produce a hybrid living biosensor/lateral flow assay that can rapidly detect target DNA sequences,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,236 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The five-year award will support the development of a portable nanosensor for the ultrasensitive optical detection of airborne agents. Key deliverables include the creation of a novel sensor featuring nanomaterials that can be activated with light to selectively capture and detect volatile organic compounds. The sensor is designed for...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), provides $330,076 to Trestle Optics LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Irvine, California. The award supports the development of a novel photothermal microscopy platform integrated with spatial light interference imaging. This innovative instrument is designed to enable non-destructive profiling and mapping of...
- This $160,260 National Science Foundation Project Grant from the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will support the development of a novel on-chip dual polarization interferometry technique and circuit implementations to enable an electrically driven and electrically readout low-cost silicon nanophotonic biosensor. The University of North Texas will collaborate with the University of Dayton to employ state-of-the-art photonic device fabrication at a 300mm CMOS foundry to...
- This federal Project Grant award of $427,625 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), aims to develop capillaric microfluidics for integrated sample preparation in miniaturized mass spectrometry (mini-MS) systems. The research will focus on creating portable, self-powered, and self-regulated sample preparation capabilities to improve the versatility and applicability of mini-MS instruments for...
This federal Project Grant award for $412,276 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), supports the development of an optofluidic biosensor using an integrated waveguide spectrometer. The key objectives are to: 1) demonstrate detection of individual nanoparticles on an integrated multi-mode interference (MMI) waveguide spectrometer optimized through photonic design; 2) design and demonstrate a nanopatterned metasurface for spectral particle classification; and 3) enable multiplex direct detection of fluorescent biological nanoparticles. The research aims to overcome the challenge of miniaturizing spectrometers for lab-on-a-chip applications by leveraging emerging photonic design methodologies. The award will fund this work at the University of California, Santa Cruz from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $412.3k | 8/8/25 |