Project Grant R43AG058269

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $1,295,800 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to develop a novel optical endoscope that does not require mechanical rotation to perform 360-degree in vivo imaging. The project aims to design and fabricate a metasurface that can...

The National Science Foundation awarded Pensievision, Inc. $255,947 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an endoscopic 3D imaging system for evaluating cancers and disorders of the esophagus and pharynx. The Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will combine liquid lens technology, artificial intelligence software, and astronomical imaging techniques to generate three-dimensional images of early-stage esophageal and throat tumors....

This Project Grant awarded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the federal Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research program (CFDA 93.394), provides $399,789 to Ergami Endoscopy, Inc. to develop an automated robotic flexible overtube device capable of blind insertion during colonoscopy procedures. The device aims to reduce physician injuries, improve productivity, and decrease patient pain/sedation requirements for the over 16 million colonoscopies performed annually in the U.S. Key...

This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research program (CFDA 93.394), will support the development and clinical validation of an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system and two specialized OCT imaging probes to enhance colorectal cancer screening. The $1,471,777 award to The General Hospital Corporation (doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital) aims to create an OCT system that can obtain 3D microscopic images of...

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), aims to develop a miniaturized forward-viewing endoscopic micro-optical coherence tomography (MOCT) system utilizing a low-voltage electrowetting prism scanner. The $405,689 award, granted on January 10, 2025, will enable the Regents of the University of Colorado to first...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of low-cost, live-streaming 360-degree volumetric content capabilities. Blinxel LLC will leverage off-the-shelf hardware to enable the capture of human subjects using multiple depth sensors, compress the streams into a single video feed, and broadcast the content to mobile and extended reality devices using cloud services. The content can then be viewed on...

This $1,302,368 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 establish a National Center for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the University of Michigan. The center will develop microsystems-based technologies for advanced fiber-coupled microendoscopes, including miniature scanners, actuators, and sensors to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Lensguide Imaging Technology Inc. for $275,000 to develop a nano-optical imaging microendoscope for in vivo imaging. The project aims to create a hair-sized, 100 μm diameter microendoscope that can image at depths greater than 3 mm in live animals with subcellular resolution, overcoming limitations of current optical imaging technologies. This...

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $398,487 Project Grant (CFDA 93.286 - Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health) to Vanderbilt University to develop and validate a gaze-based training system for endoscopic kidney stone surgery. The project aims to create an eye gaze-based guidance system that can improve surgeon training and stone visualization during endoscopic kidney stone procedures, which currently...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $549,958 to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) to develop a meta-optical fiber endoscope (MOFE) device. The MOFE aims to significantly reduce the size of endoscopic imaging components, enabling less invasive medical procedures and expanding the range of biomedical applications. Key objectives include integrating optical metasurfaces...