The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The grant supports the development of Miniaturized Automated Tissue Chip Systems (MATChS) through SBIR cooperative agreements, focusing on research and development of tools and technologies for automated, high-throughput measures with online sensing and rapid data acquisition and analysis. It aims to reduce manual handling and increase the availability of miniaturized automated tissue chip platforms for drug development and biomedical research, requiring small business applicants to create milestones and work collaboratively towards commercialization.