Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2023-08

Blueprint MedTech

Do you have a groundbreaking technology that can prevent, diagnose, or treat disorders of the nervous system?

CIMIT’s CINTA and NeuroTech Harbor, through the NIH Blueprint MedTech program, have started accepting pre-proposals from academic and industry applicants who have emerging technologies that aim to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment of disorders involving the nervous system or consequences of such diseases or injuries.

Awards up to $500K will be made available to the most promising and innovative neurotechnologies to help accelerate their development toward commercialization. Pre-proposals are due no later than March 16th, 2023.

Innovators developing groundbreaking medical device technologies face a number of challenges along the translational path from bench to bedside. The Blueprint MedTech program is an NIH incubator that aims to address such challenges and support the innovators by accelerating the development of cutting-edge medical devices to diagnose and/or treat disorders of the nervous system. The mission of the program is to catalyze the translation of novel technologies from early-stage development to readiness for first-in-human clinical studies. The program will provide: (a) non-dilutive funds to support medical device development activities led by investigators, and (b) additional resources and support services including, but not limited to:

• Planning resources to support concept development, team building, needs assessment, and other early translational activities.
• Streamlined access to translational services and expertise (e.g., design and prototyping, bench testing, large animal testing, biocompatibility assessment, manufacturing, medical monitoring).
• Assistance from consultants (e.g., on regulatory, reimbursement, intellectual property, commercialization, and strategic partnership issues).
• Advice from industry experts (e.g., meetings with an external oversight committee).

The overarching goal of the Blueprint MedTech program is to accelerate patient access to groundbreaking, safe, and effective medical devices. The program will provide support to sufficiently develop and de-risk technologies to the point where additional investments are warranted from industry partners, investors, and government.

The Blueprint MedTech Program is structured in two main components: 1) Blueprint MedTech Incubator, and 2) Blueprint MedTech Translator

NSF: Partnerships for Research Innovation in the Mathematical Sciences (PRIMES); Accelerating Research Translation (ART); Global Centers (GC); Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE); Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) Postdoctoral Research Program (PRP) (CREST-PRP)

NIH: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) (P20); Using Multimodal Biomarkers to Differentially Diagnose ADRDs for Clinical Trials (U19); Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1); NIMHD Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (R21)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: FY24 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP); NDEP STEM Open NFO; DoD Peer Reviewed Medical, Investigator-Initiated Research Award

Department of Energy: Energy Innovation Hub Program: Research to Enable Next-Generation Batteries and Energy Storage Scientific Machine Learning for Complex Systems

NASA: ROSES 2023: B.20 Heliophysics Tools and Methods; ROSES 2023: A.14 Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction

National Endowment of Humanities: Research and Development; Humanities Initiatives

U.S. Furthers Quantum Research with New International Partnership: The U.S. and the Netherlands announced their new joint endeavor in quantum information sciences and technologies research and development on Thursday, continuing the U.S.’s international innovation work in QIS. Nations all over the world are allocating more resources to fund quantum technologies, especially in the burgeoning fields of quantum computing and quantum sensing, before the advent of a functioning quantum computer capable of disrupting classical computing networks.  “The United States of America and the Netherlands intend to harness the spirit of science, technology and innovation to pursue cooperation and the mutual respect it confers, and to promote QIST, including but not limited to quantum computing, quantum networking and quantum sensing, which underpins the development of society and industry,” the State Department said. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Energy Launches Foundation to Accelerate Emerging Tech Commercialization: The Energy Department is looking for public, stakeholder and industry input regarding a new agency-related foundation created under President Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. In a request for information published Thursday, Energy seeks ideas for how the agency, as well as stakeholders, should engage with the Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation, or FESI. The foundation was created to help Energy foster public-private partnerships and invest in companies that are commercializing critical and emerging energy technologies.   “FESI will help ensure that the breakthroughs in science and innovation at DOE are used to their fullest capacity in maintaining America’s edge as a global energy powerhouse throughout the 21st Century and beyond,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in a statement. “This first-of-its-kind foundation will serve as a critical new partner to the department in our efforts to strengthen American ingenuity and deliver the technologies of the future so critical to an equitable clean energy economy.” In particular, Energy seeks input from philanthropic organizations, community stakeholders, Energy’s national laboratory foundations and the energy industry. The foundation was created through the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, and lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle say they plan to continue working to ensure the foundation’s success. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

Question: How do I enter a cost share? For my salary? For other personnel and expenses?

Answer: Cost Share for personnel other than faculty is very similar to release time –

•  add the person under Key personnel

•  select the period (start and end dates) that the staff/admin will be devoted to the project

•  select percentage.

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