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NIH STTR: Miniaturized, Automated Tissue Chip Platforms for Drug Testing (UT1/UT2, no clinical trials)

This NIH NCATS NOFO offers STTR Phase I, Phase II, and Fast-Track awards for U.S. small businesses to build benchtop, portable, automated tissue chip (organ-on-chip/MPS) systems with integrated sensors and control software for high-throughput, reproducible readouts. Awards use UT1/UT2 cooperative agreements, are milestone-driven, and include active NIH program guidance; clinical trials are not…

Source

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Sub-agency: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

Phase: Phase I

Phase: Phase II

Award

Award Floor: $350,000

Dates

Opportunity Released: November 21, 2023

Open for Submission: November 21, 2023

Submission Deadline: February 23, 2026

Application Window Closes: February 23, 2026

Eligibility

small_business

For-Profit Organizations: United States Small Business Concerns (SBCs) only (organized for profit with a place of business in the U.S.)

Joint ventures that qualify as U.S. SBCs and meet STTR ownership/control criteria

U.S. SBCs majority-owned and controlled by one or more U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens

U.S. SBCs majority-owned and controlled by other business concerns that are each majority-owned and controlled by U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens

U.S. SBCs majority-owned and controlled by an Indian tribe, Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), or Native Hawaiian Organization (NHO), or a wholly owned business entity of such tribe, ANC, or NHO

Keywords

sttr

small business

tissue chips

organ-on-chip

microphysiological systems

automation

miniaturization

high-throughput

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