Project Grant R41EB022439

The National Science Foundation awarded Cardiophi LLC $532,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop an artificial intelligence solution for the automated interpretation of electrocardiograms. The project aims to refine existing deep learning-based algorithms for detecting irregular heartbeats, develop methods for predicting the onset of cardiac arrhythmias, and create interpretable and explainable tools to provide insights from ECG signals to clinicians....

This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and validation of an automated method for continuous post-operative cardiac rhythm diagnosis. The project, led by Atrility Medical, Inc., aims to improve the accuracy and accessibility of post-operative rhythm monitoring through the use of high-quality atrial electrogram signals. The anticipated outcome is a real-time, continuous...

The federal Project Grant award of $507,000.00 from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research) aims to develop an automated system that integrates micro-electromechanical sensors, automation, and machine vision to simultaneously measure electrophysiological properties and contractile forces in single human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs). This innovative system is expected to significantly reduce measurement time...

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded a $349,734 Project Grant under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to Actiox LLC, a biomedical technology company in Thousand Oaks, California. The project aims to develop a wearable microneedle-based biosensor for continuous, real-time cardiac troponin I monitoring. The goal is to demonstrate the feasibility of this transformative biosensor technology to enable earlier detection of ischemic events and...

This $599,486 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund the development of an engineered cardiac tissue model with embedded soft microelectronics for continuous cardiotoxicity screening at The Pennsylvania State University from January 2022 to September 2023. The key product is a 3D-bioprinted, microvascularized cardiac tissue model integrated with stretchable microelectronics to enable real-time, intra-tissue measurement of cardiotoxicity responses to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,992 to Boston University to develop a high-throughput electrical stimulation screening platform for assessing the long-term effects of cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) devices on engineered human heart tissue. The project will support a postdoctoral scholar co-mentored by researchers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Boston University to advance...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program grant, in the amount of $400,000, supports the development of a tissue-like, converged sensing platform for tracking excitation-contraction dynamics in cardiac organoids. The project aims to: Develop a scalable assembly strategy to fabricate an array of three-dimensional sensor structures using planar semiconducting graphene material, designed to detect both electrical and mechanical stimuli. Evaluate the multifunctional...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.113), awarded a $525,824 Project Grant to Neurolux Inc. in Northfield, IL. The grant aims to commercialize an Electromechanically Monitored Engineered Heart Tissue (EMEHT) platform developed at Northwestern University. Key deliverables include: 1) Developing a consumable electronics fabrication process to meet design criteria for high-throughput EMEHT studies, and 2)...

The federal Project Grant award, funded by 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), aims to develop a real-time, continuous monitoring platform to track cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels alongside electrocardiogram (ECG) readings. The $127,926 award to The Leland Stanford Junior University...

RCE Technologies, Inc. was awarded a $255,892 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a proof-of-concept machine learning-based diagnostic system for detecting myocardial infarction and ischemia in real-time. The system aims to provide point-of-care clinical classification for heart attack cases using a novel, portable device integrating the awardee's proprietary external...