National Institutes of Health

Description

Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) that propose to develop field-deployable or wearable personal sensors for monitoring point-of-contact exposures to a broad range of airborne chemical and biological agents; for monitoring exposure in available biosamples (buccal cells, finger prick, exhaled breath, urine or saliva) to assess real time and continuous readout of internal exposures; and/or for developing and refining panels of biomarkers of biological response to environmental stressors.A central element is that the personal sensors produce quantitative, near real-time measurement of multiple analytes at the point of contact with the body (e.g., nose, mouth, skin) or in available biosamples, and that the biomarkers of response reflect components of key physiologic and pathophysiologic pathways relevant to human disease.It is anticipated that any devices developed through this FOA will be fully developed and validated so it will be available for application to population studies at the end of the funding period.

Who can apply

• Small businesses

Contact

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