National Institutes of Health

Description

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports Phase I (R43), Direct to Phase II (R44), and Fast Track (R44) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant proposals from small businesses concerns (SBCs) to develop resources and approaches, including panels of cells or model organisms, that can better reflect the variability in human populations in chemical toxicity testing. Current toxicology testing is often limited to studies conducted in a small number of laboratory rodent strains, which can fail to identify clinically relevant toxicity if the conventional rodent strain is particularly resistant to the toxic effects of the test compound. Cost-effective screening systems with appropriate throughput are needed to capture the variability in responses to chemical exposure in the human population based on genetic diversity.

Who can apply

• Small businesses

Contact

NIH OER Webmaster<br/>FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV
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