SBIR/STTR Research Award
Genetics and breeding of mealworms and their microbiomes for improved production
Award amount
$137,847Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Beta Hatch Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2017-05-05
- Contract end date
- 2018-02-04
- UEI
- VNXPGKNHR4Q8
- Solicitation number
- 2016.3
- Topic code
- SB163-002
Research abstract
The challenge of producing enough food for our growing planet requires incredible innovation. Insects are a sustainable alternative to existing agricultural inputs. However, to penetrate the $400B global feed industry, insects need to be produced both at...
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Rapid mass production of human influenza vaccine in insects using genome editing
- Rural Microfarming: Mobile On-Farm Production Of Insects As Animal Feed From Agricultural Waste
- Optimization of commercial production of insects as feed ingredient and for waste remediation
- SBIR Phase II: Scalable insect farming for agriculture
- Novel diet development for improved cost efficiency of insect mass rearing for feed
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Transgenic Black Soldier Flies for Sustainable, Improved Nutrition
- New Technology and Genetically Engineered Insects for Sustainable Food, Nutrition, Health and Other Applications
- Screening Random Mutagenesis for Genetic Trait Mapping in Gryllodes sigillatus
- Genetic /Genomic Technology to Improve Farmed Insects for Sustainable Nutrition, Health and Other Applications
- Transgenic black soldier flies for sustainable, improved nutrition
Research funding history
7 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2017–2021). Reported award amounts total $3,303,178. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Agriculture