SBIR/STTR Research Award
SBIR PHASE I- TOPIC 410 - CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION TOOLS FOR PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT.
Award amount
$400,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- Melax Technologies, Inc
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- ME3MA61LJD79
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- 410
Research abstract
Many clinical trials fail to meet their accrual and retention goals, which leads to delays, early termination, or inability to draw conclusions at trial completion due to loss of statistical power. NCI wants to enhance clinical trials recruitment and retention by developing tools that could enhance communication between participants and study staff. In this Phase 1 tool development application we address the NCI interest in simplified informed consent documents that enhance personal communication during the informed consent process. In this Phase I proposal we leverage natural language processing technology and our teams prior work on the Informed Consent Ontology (ICO) to improve the language in consent documents related specifically to permissions granted by a research participant.
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.
- Clinical Decision Support System for Early Detection of Cognitive Decline Using Electronic Health Records and Deep Learning
- REAL-TIME SURVEILLANCE OF VACCINE MISINFORMATION FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS USING ONTOLOGY AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES
- INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF HETEROGENEOUS COVID-19 DATASETS USING KNOWLEDGE GRAPH.
- CLAMP-CS: a Cloud-based, Service-oriented, high-performance Natural Language Processing Platform for Healthcare
- Developing informatics tools to make immunology research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- SBIR PHASE I TOPIC 410 - CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION TOOLS FOR PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT.
- SBIR PHASE I- TOPIC 410 - CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION TOOLS FOR PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT.
- SBIR PHASE I- TOPIC 410 - CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION TOOLS FOR PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT.
Research funding history
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2023). Reported award amounts total $3,721,442. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services