
An Integrated, Accurate, and Rapid Peanut Allergen Detector for ConsumersAward last edited on: 12/14/2023
Sponsored Program
SBIRAwarding Agency
NIH : NIAIDTotal Award Amount
$2,292,206Award Phase
2Solicitation Topic Code
-----Principal Investigator
Lourenco Francisco DiasCompany Information
Phase I
Contract Number: 1R43AI124907-01Start Date: 2/1/2016 Completed: 7/31/2016
Phase I year
2016Phase I Amount
$292,208Public Health Relevance Statement:
Public Health Relevance:
The objective of this project is to develop and commercialize an economical, accurate, fast, and portable device for peanut allergen detection in foods, which can be readily used by consumers on a regular basis. It will provide peanut allergy sufferers, parents of children with food allergies, health care providers, food manufacturers and restaurants with a means of testing foods to better ensure safety, thereby improving consumer health and quality of life, as well as reducing long-term medical costs. Ultimately we plan to extend this platform to the detection of all major food allergens.
Project Terms:
Accounting; Adult; Affect; Age; Allergens; Allergy to peanuts; Antibodies; base; Biological Assay; Caregivers; Chemistry; Child; cloud based; community living; Complex; Consumption; cost; Dairy Products; Data Analyses; data exchange; Databases; design; Detection; detector; Devices; Diet; Disease Notification; Eating; egg; Ensure; Equipment; Evaluation; Feasibility Studies; Fluorescence; Food; food allergen; Food Hypersensitivity; Food Processing; Food Safety; Funding; Future; Generations; Gluten; Government; handheld equipment; Health; Health Personnel; High Prevalence; Hypersensitivity; Immunoassay; improved; Individual; Irritants; Label; Lateral; Lead; Life; Manufacturer Name; Medical; mobile application; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease; Nuts; operation; Pain; Parents; Patients; Pediatrics; Performance; Persons; Phage Display; Phase; Population; Preparation; Prevalence; Price; Process; programs; Proteins; prototype; public health medicine (field); public health relevance; Quality of life; Reporting; Research; Resources; Restaurants; Safety; Sampling; sensor; sharing data; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Solutions; soy; technological innovation; Technology; Test Result; Testing; Time; Trees; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; user-friendly; Variant; Work
Phase II
Contract Number: 2R44AI124907-02Start Date: 00/00/00 Completed: 00/00/00
Phase II year
2017(last award dollars: 2018)
Phase II Amount
$1,999,998Public Health Relevance Statement:
Relevance to Public Health: The objective of this project is to develop and commercialize an economical, accurate, fast and portable device for peanut allergen detection in foods, which can be readily used by consumers on a regular basis. It will provide peanut allergy sufferers, parents of children with food allergies, health care providers, food manufacturers and restaurants with a means of testing foods to better ensure safety, thereby improving consumer health and quality of life, as well as reducing long-term medical costs. This product is similar to our recently released first product, a gluten detector, but requires much more sensitive technology and we will ultimately extend this platform to detection of all major food allergens.
Project Terms:
4 year old; Accounting; Adult; Affect; Affinity; Allergens; Allergy to peanuts; Antibodies; base; Biological Assay; Caregivers; Chemistry; Child; cloud based; Communities; community living; Complex; Consumption; cost; Custom; Dairy Products; Data Analyses; data exchange; Databases; design; Detection; detector; Devices; Diet; Eating; egg; Ensure; Equipment; Evaluation; Fluorescence; Food; food allergen; Food Hypersensitivity; Food Processing; Food Safety; Funding; Future; Generations; Gluten; Government; Guidelines; handheld equipment; Health; Health Personnel; High Prevalence; Hypersensitivity; Immunoassay; improved; Individual; Irritants; Label; Lateral; Lead; Life; Manufacturer Name; Medical; mobile application; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease; Nuts; operation; Pain; Parents; Patients; Pediatrics; Performance; Persons; Phase; Population; portability; Preparation; Prevalence; Price; Process; programs; Proteins; prototype; Public Health; Quality of life; Reporting; Research; Resources; Restaurants; Safety; Sampling; sensor; sharing data; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; soy; technological innovation; Technology; Test Result; Testing; Time; Trees; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; user-friendly; Variant