The Project Grant award of $586,190 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will support the development of an innovative, in-line autonomous monitoring system for detecting and measuring hexavalent chromium in drinking and groundwater. The project aims to convert a successful feasibility study into a prototype system that can provide rapid, accurate, and calibration-free analysis of chromate contamination over a...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $313,372 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program to Pearlhill Technologies LLC, a minority-owned small business located in Idaho. The goal of this 1-year project is to develop the Environmental Optically Gated Transistor (ENVIR-OGT) sensor to measure and monitor the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in air and water at low concentrations. This new sensor...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $668,744 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) to Materials Nova LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Austin, Texas. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, aims to develop an innovative point-of-use water purification system that can remove bacteria and toxic metals like lead and mercury from natural water sources. The system will utilize highly-branched graphite foam electrodes...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, awarded Nona Technologies, Inc. a $297,815 project grant on Dec 5, 2024. The grant supports the development of a cutting-edge, portable and standalone universal water purifier that utilizes a novel ion concentration polarization (ICP) technology. In Phase I, the project aims to deliver a scalable model of the cation exchange resin (CER) incorporated ICP (CER-ICP)...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the NIEHS Superfund Hazardous Substances Basic Research and Education program (CFDA 93.143) supports the development of a field-deployable analyzer for detecting and quantifying trace levels of uranyl (uranium) in water. The $173,075 award to Ondavia, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of advanced chemical analysis technologies, aims to create a Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)-based...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, aims to develop a novel at-home test kit for the detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. The total award amount is $260,993 with a project period from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026. The primary goals of this project are to: Optimize the adsorptive and photocatalytic performance of metal-organic...
The National Institutes of Health National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded a $924,612 Project Grant to the California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from August 2022 to July 2025 to advance chemical risk assessment and predictive toxicology through the development, validation and integration of high-throughput mechanistic in vitro assays. Specifically, the grantee will...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) Federal Grant Program provides funding of $281,734 to Interlink Electronics, Inc. to develop a high-resolution, ground-level air quality monitoring system. The project aims to demonstrate a low-cost sensor node that can monitor key air pollutants such as temperature, humidity, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and nitrogen oxides. To enhance...
This $900,804 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program supports the development and validation of an integrated microphysiological screening platform (MPS) with "virtual human" models to assess chemical toxicity. The key products and services to be delivered include: A 96-well MPS screening platform that combines elements of the awardee's commercial 48-well MPS with highly...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, is providing $305,260 to Access Sensor Technologies LLC to commercialize the AIRPEN - a wearable device for rapidly characterizing exposures to particulate matter (PM) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during disaster events. The key products and services to be delivered include: Collaborating with disaster response researchers...