SBIR/STTR Research Award
R3: A Smart Attachment for Improving Adherence and Usage of Metered Dose Inhalers
Award amount
$223,042Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- COGNITA LABS, LLC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- J2WHL2LRZ574
- Solicitation number
- PA14-072
- Topic code
- NIDA
Research abstract
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Respiratory illnesses continue to be on the rise1-4, in particular, COPD alone impacts nearly 210 million globally 6. Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) is the most common mechanism to deliver medicine, and is used by the patients for both maintenance and rescue medications. It is well established that regular use of the medications minimizes long-term damage to the lungs, and results in improved health outcomes for the patients 7. Unfortunately, nearly 70-90% of the patients donot display correct technique11-17 and nearly 50% do not take their medications regularly 8-10,13. The biggest challenge in correct use lies in the difficulty of using the inhaler. Correct inhaler is akin to shooting at a small target at the ight time i.e. patients have to point the inhaler towards the back of their throat and activate the inhaler at the correct time during their inhalation - a maneuver which turns out to be difficult fo most patients to master. To compound the problem, regular use
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.
- SonoHeal: Smart Resonating Closed-loop Airway Clearance Technology
- SonoHeal: Smart Resonating Closed-loop Airway Clearance Device
- SBIR Phase II: Handheld and Low-cost Pulmonary Function Testing Device using Smart Coherent Multi-signal Oscillometry Technique
- STTR Phase I: Design of a Handheld Multi-sensor Passive Pulmonary Function Testing Device
Awards with the same topic code
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- Wearable Wireless Respiratory Monitoring System that Detects and Predicts Opioid Induced Respiratory Depression
- Building and testing the Life Enhancement and Advocacy Programming digital training tool (LEAPLink) to better serve people with lived experience of homelessness and substance use disorder
- A digital intervention to decrease self-stigma among pregnant and postpartum women with opioid use disorder
- Development of medication for the treatment of respiratory depression due to opioid (prescribed or illicit) overdose/multidrug (polysubstance) overdose in a hospital or community setting.
- Creation and Validation of the Dose-Opioid-Source Evaluation tool (DOSE) - a Robust Opioid Use Clinical Outcome Assessment for Qualification as an FDA Medical Device Development Tool (MDDT)
Research funding history
5 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2014–2022). Reported award amounts total $2,948,006. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation