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Your Environment. Your Health.

Currently Funded

NIEHS SBIR Environmental Technologies

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences funds Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) (R43/44) grants. These SBIR grants help small businesses develop innovative applications to translate and communicate environmental health research to improve public health.

Here we feature NIEHS small business grants awarded to foster the commercialization of innovative environmental technologies for detecting and remediating hazardous substances. These technologies have the potential of protecting health through preventing harmful exposures. For questions about these grants, please contact Heather Henry: 919-541-5330 or henryh@niehs.nih.gov.

Currently Funded Small Business Research Grants:

  • Advanced & Innovative Multifunctional Materials LLC
    Short Chain PFAS Adsorption via AimmSorb
    Project Leader: Luis Estevez
    Funding Period: Phase I: June 2024 - May 2025
  • Bluegrass Advanced Materials, LLC
    Development of Smart Flocculants for the Treatment of PFAS Contaminated Water
    Project Leader: Anastasia Hauser
    Funding Period: Phase II: May 2024 - April 2024
  • CycloPure, Inc.
    Remediation of Perfluorinated Chemicals in Water Using Novel High-Affinity Polymer Adsorbents
    Project Leader: Gokhan Barin
    Funding Period: Phase II: September 2022 - August 2024
  • Enspired Solutions Inc.
    Advanced Water Treatment System for On-Site PFAS Capture and Destruction
    Project Leader: Suzanne Witt
    Funding Period: Phase I: May 2024 - April 2024
  • MAX-IR LABS, LLC
    PFAS Sensor for Remediation and Industrial Wastewater Treatment Optimization Applications
    Project Leader: Ecatherina Roodenko
    Funding Period: Phase II: September 2024 - August 2025
  • Microvi Biotechnologies, Inc.
    Intensified, High-Rate Reductive Immobilization of Hexavalent Chromium
    Project Leader: Fatemeh Shirazi
    Funding Period: Phase II: September 2022 - August 2024
  • Nanosepex, Inc.
    Development of Microwave Induced Membrane Distillation with Carbon Nanotube Immobilized Membranes: A Sustainable Solution for Solvent Recovery from Aqueous Wastes
    Project Leader: Cheng Li
    Funding Period: Phase I: June 2024 - May 2025
  • Picoyune
    Plasmonic Sensor and Field Monitor for Mercury
    Project Leader: Jay James
    Funding Period: Phase II: September 2022 - August 2025
  • Regenerative Solutions, Inc.
    Innovative Sorbents for Stabilizing Per- and Polyfluoroalky Substances (PFAS) in Soil Contaminated by Aqueous Film-forming Foam (AFFF)
    Project Leader: Tao Jiang
    Funding Period: Phase I: May 2023 - April 2024
  • RemBac Environmental, LLC.
    Development of an Innovative Approach for In Situ Treatment of PCB Impacted Sediments by Microbial Bioremediation
    Project Leader: Craig Bennett Amos
    Funding Period: Phase II: August 2024 - July 2025

These NIEHS-funded projects may be of interest to SRP grant recipients:

  • Goeppert, LLC
    Rapid and Low-Cost PFAS Detection with Advanced Solid-State Nanopore Chips
    Project Leader: Zehui Xia
    Funding Period: Phase I: January 2023 - December 2024
  • Materials Nova LLC
    Innovative Point-of-Use Water Purification System: Portable, Scalable, Efficient, Easy-Use
    Project Leader: Huifeng Li
    Funding Period: Phase I: September 2024 - August 2025
  • NanoAffix Science, LLC
    Graphene-based Nanosensor Device for Rapid, Onsite Detection of Total Lead in Tap Water
    Project Leader: Robert Kopanic
    Funding Period: Phase I: June 2024 - May 2025
  • NanoAffix Science, LLC
    Graphene-based Nanosensors for Rapid Detection of Low-concentration PFAS in Water
    Project Leader: Robert Kopanic
    Funding Period: Phase I: June 2024 - May 2025
  • OndaVia, Inc.
    Automated, In-Line Hexavalent Chromium Analyzer
    Project Leader: Mark Peterman
    Funding Period: Phase I: September 2024 - August 2025
  • PowerTech Water, LLC
    Electrochemical POU Water Purification System
    Project Leader: Lindsay Boehme
    Funding Period: Phase II: May 2022 - April 2024
  • Sorbenta, Inc
    Novel Sorbents for Removal of PFAS from Water
    Project Leader: Robin Weitkamp
    Funding Period: Phase I: July 2024 - June 2025
  • Stemloop, Inc.
    A Paper-Based Synthetic Biology Platform for the On-Demand Testing of Water Quality
    Project Leader: Khalid Kamal Alam
    Funding Period: Phase II: September 2022 - August 2024
  • TDA Research, Inc.
    Filtration Media for In-Home PFAS Removal from Drinking Water
    Project Leader: Steven D. Dietz
    Funding Period: Phase II: August 2024 - July 2025
  • XCELLASSAY, Inc.
    Multiplexed Nuclear Receptor BioAssay Platform to Inexpensively and Broadly Survey the Nation's Water Supply for Contamination by Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
    Project Leader: Fred Schaufele
    Funding Period: Phase I: March 2024 - February 2025
  • XCELLASSAY, Inc.
    One-Step, In-the-Field Detection of Water Contamination by Unhealthy Concentrations of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Affecting Nuclear Receptors Arrayed on a Test Strip
    Project Leader: Fred Schaufele
    Funding Period: Phase I: August 2024 - July 2025

For information about funding opportunities specific to the Hazardous Substances Detection and Remediation Program, please visit the Superfund Research Program SBIR webpage. For more information about all NIEHS funding opportunities for small businesses, visit the NIEHS SBIR/STTR webpage.

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