If you’ve been hearing more than usual about Small Business Innovation Research programs lately, it’s likely because a recent change disqualified companies with a significant proportion of venture backing from winning these funds — and that has BIO and other industry organizations up in arms. To find out just how much these grants are playing a role in this field, GT checked into SBIR funding awards from the 2007 fiscal year.
For this listing, GT culled the database to find phase I grants most obviously supporting genomics, proteomics, and related areas. The list below represents the largest grants, and is by no means comprehensive.
Akonni Biosystems
$294,452
Darrell Chandler
Diagnostic Protein Array for Respiratory Infections
Ambergen
$657,583
Mark Lim
Novel Proteomic Arrays of In Vitro Expressed Proteins for Autoimmune Disease
Ambergen
$374,500
Mark Lim
Photocleavable ICAT Reagents for Quantitative Proteomics
Ambion Diagnostics
$440,975
Gary Latham
Rapid Quantitation of Small RNA
Ambion Diagnostics
$328,413
Gary Latham
Integrated Technology for MicroRNA-based Diagnostic Assays
Amplified Proteomics
$490,118
Huangtsu Chen
Multiplexed Protein Measurement by Real-time Immuno-PCR
Atactic Technologies
$285,715
Xiaochuan Zhou
Microchips of Protein Kinase Substrates
Atactic Technologies
$231,421
Xiaolian Gao
Parallel DNA Assembling on MicroChip
Calibrant Biosystems
$219,582
Brian Balgley
Validation and Quantification of FFPE Antigen Retrieval by Proteome Analysis
Cell Signaling Technology
$560,817
Peter Van Hornbeck
PhosphoSite and the Phosphoproteome of Cancer
Cellecta
$289,398
Alex Chenchik
Functionally Validated Lentiviral siRNA Libraries
Ciencia
$300,000
Ernest Guignon
Protein Microarray System for Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis
EIC Laboratories
$261,113
Michael Wilson
Nanotube Reagentless Proteomic Arrays
ExperiMed Bioscience
$892,747
Lawrence Kauvar
Multiplexed Screening of Protein Expression Libraries
Gencia
$802,178
James Bennett
Manipulation of Mitochondrial Genomes in Aging and Neurodegeneration
GeneGo
$405,166
Tatiana Nikolskaya
Elucidation of Functional Networks from Toxicogenomics Gene Expression Data
Genomas
$449,182
Gualberto Ruano
DNA Diagnostics for Minimizing Metabolic Side-Effects of Antipsychotics
Intelligent Bio-Systems
$300,000
Jerzy Olejnik
Novel Diagnostic Sequencing System for HIV Resistance Testing
Lucigen
$443,433
Thomas Schoenfeld
Improved DNA Polymerases for Genomic Sequencing
Lucigen
$406,881
Ronald Godiska
High Fidelity Genomic Cloning and Amplification
Lynntech
$400,000
Tim Wharton
An Integrated Optical DNA Detector for Portable PCR
MagArray
$299,650
Robert White
Rapid DNA Assay System for Characterization of Infectious Disease Pathogens
Mirus Bio
$486,482
MaryAnne Watt
Efficient Labeling of MicroRNA for Microarray Analysis
NABsys
$249,137
John Oliver
Hybridization-Assisted Nanopore Sequencing
Potomac Affinity Proteins
$414,878
Biao Ruan
Proteases and Tags for Protein Purification and Analysis
Prognosys Biosciences
$331,883
Mark Chee
An Assay System for Cancer Gene Discovery
Protein Discovery
$371,571
Dean Hafeman
High Throughput Fractionation and Concentration System for MALDI-MS
Scarab Genomics
$500,000
Frederick Blattner
Clean-Genome Vaccines Against Biodefense Agents
Science and Engineering Services
$402,600
Vadym Berkout
A Novel Method of Ion Fragmentation in Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Science and Engineering Services
$366,794
Vladimir Doroshenko
Quadrupole Ion Trap/FTICR Tandem Mass Spectrometer
SomaGenics
$299,333
Sergei Kazakov
Multiplexed mRNA Quantification Using Self-Circularizing RNA Probes
Trilink Biotechnologies
$372,859
Howard Gamper
Reagents for Preparing Structure-Free DNA and RNA
Trilink Biotechnologies
$366,380
Alexandre Lebedev
Chemically Modified Primers for Improved Hot Start PCR