University Of Western Ontario

University Of Western Ontario Western Research Division, doing business as Western University, is a Canadian research institution that receives federal research funding as a prime grant recipient and subcontractor on biomedical and space science research programs, with no federal contract prime awards and a footprint concentrated among the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the Department of Defense.

Western University operates as a non-profit educational institution headquartered in London, Ontario, competing for federal research dollars in a full-and-open posture across life sciences, neuroscience, infectious disease, and space environmental characterization. The institution is not a small business and carries no SBA designations. Recent work spans basic and applied research in medical and space domains, grounded in NAICS categories including testing laboratories and educational support services, with primary PSC concentration in R&D–Medical (both basic research and applied research/exploratory development) and R&D–Space science applications.

Western University's federal prime footprint centers on NIH grant recipients and NASA cooperative agreements. Representative prime awards include a $982,713 cooperative agreement with NASA's Shared Services Center for a joint program on meteoroid measurement, modeling, and monitoring through February 2027; a National Institute of Mental Health project grant awarded September 2026 examining subjective reward response during binge eating using ecological momentary assessment; and a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases project grant awarded July 2022 for viral and host factors in neuroinvasion of encephalitis alphaviruses, running through June 2027. The institution holds 64 prime awards (65% of the 98 total awards in the source) across 30 customer agencies, with combined potential value of $7.1 million against combined obligated dollars of $39 million, indicating substantial invoiced revenue relative to remaining ceiling.

Customer concentration by funding agency splits between space and biomedical customers. NASA's Shared Services Center and Marshall Space Flight Center combined account for $6.8 million of the $7.1 million combined potential value (95% concentration), reflected in nine awards through the Shared Services Center and three through Marshall Space Flight Center. The Department of the Army places 11 awards (tied for the highest award count but lower potential value), with the National Institute on Aging (six awards), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (five awards), and the Office of the Director of NIH (five awards) rounding out the top-five customer set by award count at 37% coverage. This divergence — NASA dominates dollars while Army and NIH dominate volume — reflects Western's dual role as a prime beneficiary of mid-sized space science awards and a component of larger NIH consortium grants anchored at peer institutions.

Western University serves as subrecipient on 34 federal grant awards (35% of total), predominantly NIH-funded research. Named prime grantees include The University of Chicago (on cognitive aging and superaging research, with Western providing recruitment, retention, and site coordination for Canadian cohorts expected to enroll approximately 100 participants over five years), Purdue University (traveling wave coding of touch using 3D multi-depth electrode arrays), George Washington University (genital microbiota and HIV risk), University of Maryland Baltimore (pain biomarker validation), Harvard College (numerical and mathematical cognition in child development), the University of Pennsylvania (analyses of Mig6-mutant mice and signaling pathways), the Salk Institute (spatiotemporal neural activity patterns and sensory perception), Michigan Technological University (biomass processing and recovery systems), Weill Medical College of Cornell University (HIV reservoir and cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses in Ugandan cohorts), and Columbia University (intestinal stem cell regeneration after irradiation). Western's subaward roles typically involve investigator effort in experimental design, data collection, statistical analysis, immunological assays (ELISPOT, QVOA), phylogenetic modeling, mouse organoid studies, and protocol coordination across multi-site consortium structures.

Army contract vehicles anchor Western's modest prime contract footprint. The source names three indefinite-delivery contracts — DAMD1786C6084 (5 task orders), DAMD1783C3051 (3 task orders), and DAMD1782C2018 (2 task orders) — as the primary Army IDIQs carrying Western's prime contract work; the institution does not hold seats on government-wide vehicles such as GWACs or GSA Schedules. Recent award velocity shows growth from three awards in both 2022 and 2023 to 22 awards in 2024, followed by decline to six awards in 2025 and two through September 2026, suggesting either completion of a large grant consortium entry point or recompete cliff exposure. Four awards (combined potential value $983 thousand) complete within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete risk in the near term.