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NIH funding notice PAR-15-091

BRAIN Initiative: Development, Optimization, and Validation of Novel Tools and Technologies for Neuroscience Research (SBIR) (R43/R44)

Closed on January 5, 2018.

Posted
January 16, 2015
Close date
January 5, 2018
Activity codes
Not stated on the notice page
Institutes taking part
Not stated on the notice page

Read the notice on Grants.gov · NIH Guide page

The notices it replaced

Its page was not saved, so the notices it replaced are not known.

Who won it before

18 competing awards (new and renewals) from FY2014 to FY2025 under this notice and the notices it replaced: $6,221,883 in first-year total cost, median $231,193.

Most frequent study sections

  1. Special Emphasis Panel[ZRG1 ETTN-C (10)]15
  2. Special Emphasis Panel[ZRG1 ETTN-M (11)]1
  3. Special Emphasis Panel[ZRG1 ETTN-P (13)]1
  4. Special Emphasis Panel[ZRG1 SBIB-T (10)]1

Most frequent institutions

  1. PHYSICAL SCIENCES, INC2
  2. 490 BIOTECH, INC.1
  3. ACTUATED MEDICAL, INC.1
  4. ADVANCED MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION1
  5. GRAYMATTER RESEARCH1
Competing awards under PAR-15-091 and the notices it replaced
FYProjectPIsInstitutionFirst-year costStudy section
2019Affordable wireless recording for mice2R44MH112374-02CHOI, MEE HJINGA-HI, INC., CA$749,469ZRG1
2018Designing low-cost, customizable high-density probes for acute and chronic neural recordings in rodents1R43MH118155-01VAN WELIE, INGRIDNEURAL DYNAMICS TECHNOLOGIES INC., MA$700,754ZRG1
2018Neural Implant Insertion System using Ultrasonic Vibration to Reduce Tissue Dimpling and Improve Insertion Precision of Floating Arrays in the Neocortex1R43NS105500-01A1MULVIHILL, MAUREEN L.ACTUATED MEDICAL, INC., PA$378,515ZRG1
2018Dual-channel Sub-millisecond Resolution Neural Imaging System1R43MH116748-01ZHAO, YOUBOPHYSICAL SCIENCES, INC, MA$229,968ZRG1
2018Autonomously-activating bioluminescent reporters to enable continuous, real-time, non-invasive brain cell imaging1R43MH118186-01SAYLER, GARY S490 BIOTECH, INC., TN$150,000ZRG1
2018Development of a Revolutionary MRI System for Functional Brain Imaging1R43MH119021-01WAGNER, BOB SWANG, SOU-TIEN BERTWANG NMR, INC., CA$149,994ZRG1
2017An Implantable and High-Density, Multiplexed Micro-ECoG System1R43NS102067-01A1MCLAUGHLIN, BRYAN LMICRO-LEADS, INC., MA$553,164ZRG1
2017Rapid, in vitro phenotyping of monogenic neurological disorders using CRISPRi and high-throughput all-optical electrophysiology.1R43MH113447-01A1WERLEY, CHRISTOPHERQ-STATE BIOSCIENCES, INC., MA$345,471ZRG1
2017Prosthetic System for Large-Scale Recording and Manipulation of Neural Circuit Activity in Non-Human Primates1R43NS102075-01A1GOODELL, ALBERT BALDWINGRAYMATTER RESEARCH, MT$232,418ZRG1
2017Portable optogenetics/two-photon imaging instrument for in vivo brain studies1R43MH112214-01ZHAO, YOUBOPHYSICAL SCIENCES, INC, MA$229,916ZRG1
2017High Density, Miniaturized, Zero Switching, Stimulation and Recording Headstage for Small Animals1R44MH114776-01HEDIN, DANIEL SADVANCED MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, MN$224,957ZRG1
2017"Grid-Tape": A High-Throughput Platform for Brain Connectomics and Nanoscale Structural Analysis1R43MH112349-01SMITH, RYAN MLUXEL CORPORATION, WA$174,203ZRG1
2017Wireless, implantable optofluidic systems for programmed pharmacology and optogenetics1R41MH116525-01BANKS, ANTHONYGHAFFARI, ROOZBEHNEUROLUX, INC., IL$149,610ZRG1
2016Miniature, integrated and mass-producible fluorescence microscopes for in vivo brain imaging in freely behaving rodents2R44MH095332-03GHOSH, KUNALINSCOPIX, INC., CA$726,188ZRG1
2016High Speed, Multi-sensor Light Field Deconvolution Microscopy for Whole Brain Recording of Neuronal Activity1R43MH109332-01BOYDEN, EDWARD S.CHRONOPOULOS, CHRISTOPHER KEVINLEAFLABS, LLC, MA$449,893ZRG1
20163D Tessellation Imaging1R43MH111767-01MERMELSTEIN, MICHAELUMECH TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, MA$327,701ZRG1
2016Linkage-specific ubiquitylation patterns as highly sensitive markers for neurodegenerative disease1R43AG054313-01BUTT, TAUSEEF R.LIFESENSORS, INC., PA$224,662ZRG1
2015Cellular-resolution multi-region optical recording of neural activity with wide-field two-photon microscopy1R43MH110021-01CLACK, NATHAN GVIDRIO TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, VA$225,000ZRG1

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