Closed · RFA-OD-20-020 · CFDA 93.121;93.233;93.273;93.286;93.307;93.310;93.350;93.837;93.838;93.839;93.840;93.846;93.865;93.879 · Discretionary
Emergency Awards RADx-RAD: Novel Biosensing for Screening, Diagnosis and Monitoring of COVID-19 From Skin and The Oral Cavity (R44 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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- September 18, 2020
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The verdict
Emergency Awards RADx-RAD: Novel Biosensing for Screening, Diagnosis and Monitoring of COVID-19 From Skin and The Oral Cavity (R44 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) is a closed discretionary listing from National Institutes of Health that offered Varies by applicant. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 12,419 other opportunities from National Institutes of Health.
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Emergency Awards RADx-RAD: Novel Biosensing f… is closed (last close September 18, 2020). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. National Institutes of Health still indexes 12,419 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
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Closed September 18, 2020
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Description
The goal of this RFA is to solicit direct to Phase II SBIR proposals for development of novel, non-traditional, approaches to identify the current SARS-CoV-2 virus or other biomarkers of the COVID-19 disease for use in outbreaks of COVID-19, as well as for use in future pandemics resulting from unknown viruses. This FOA is seeking applications for innovative portable devices able to produce reliable associations between biomarkers emanating from skin and the oral cavity to patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19. Specifically, biosensing devices are expected to target skin or the oral cavity as sampling sites. Skin biosensing must detect volatile organic compounds (VOCs, i.e. scents or odors) emanating from skin in passive and noninvasive manner for use at the point of care. In addition to VOCs, oral biosensing technologies may target a wealth of biological, chemical and physical biosignatures representative of COVID-19 that can be sampled from exhaled breath/droplets, saliva, and tissues in the oral cavity. Leveraging the accessibility of human skin and the oral cavity, this FOA seeks 1) to advance novel biosensing technologies that are innovative, safe, and effective, and 2) to implement such technologies into devices with integrated artificial intelligent (AI) systems for the detection, diagnosis, prediction, prognosis and monitoring of COVID-19 in clinical, community and everyday settings. For skin monitoring, the device can include Electronic-nose (E-nose) technology or Gas Chromatography (GC). Thus, we are calling this program, the SCENT (Screening for COVID-19 by E-Nose Technology). Biosensing devices for the oral cavity can be technologies that have been thoroughly characterized as safe and effective in preclinical studies. Non-invasive, real-time, continuous or periodic measurements of VOCs and other biomarkers in breath, and emanating from oral tissues as signatures of onset, progression, and resolution of COVID-19 are desirable.
Small-business / for-profit corridor · RFA-OD-20-020
Emergency Awards RADx-RAD: Novel Biosensing f… prints a for-profit / small-business applicant door (Small businesses). Treat the listing as business-facing unless the full Grants.gov announcement narrows it further. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity codes span Education · Health · Income Security and Social Services (ED;HL;ISS). 789 other National Institutes of Health listings share this eligibility-code string (6% of 12,420).
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- Small businesses
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