SBIR/STTR Research Award
Next-Generation Voltage Sensitive Dyes for Cell Bioelectricity Measurements
Award amount
$102,800Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- AKITA INNOVATIONS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2014-05-28
- Contract end date
- 2015-04-28
- UEI
- UXNVMEZDFNF7
- Solicitation number
- 2014.1
- Topic code
- SB141-002
Research abstract
Akita Innovations proposes to develop the next generation of voltage-sensitive dyes for cellular bioelectricity measurements by engineering electric field sensitivity into a class of highly fluorescent dyes which heretofore have not been used for this purpose. The much higher brightness of these dyes will improve the sensitivity of the voltage measurements. Akita will also develop a method of targeting these dyes, as well as existing voltage sensitive dyes, to particular cell types and regions by conjugating them to polypeptides with appropriate specificity.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Permanent Elastomeric Radar Array Cover
- Scalable Intrinsically Porous Organic Polymers
- AM of Textured Piezoelectric Ceramics
- Additive Manufacture of MOF Elastomers
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Awards with the same topic code
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- Next-Generation Voltage Sensitive Dyes for Cell Bioelectricity Measurements
- Voltage-Sensitive Diamond Nanosensors
- Developing and commercializing inorganic voltage sensing nanoparticles
Research funding history
23 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2013–2025). Reported award amounts total $11,253,725. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense