NIH SBIR Grants in 2008

2008 NIH SBIR/STTR Grant Winners in Los Angeles, Oran= ge County and Neighbor= ing Communities

As of May 22, 2008-05-25

Company (City)	PI	Grant Focus	Amount
= Applied Scientific Research (Santa Ana)	Gharakhani, Adrin	Gridless Simulation of Flow-MPHV Interaction<= /p>	$374,986
ArmaGen Technologies (Santa Monica)	Boado, Ruben	Tar= geted Neurotrophin Drug Development in Parkinson's Diseas= e	$100,000
ArmaGen Technologies (Santa Monica)	Zha= ng, Yufeng	Iduronidase Replacement Therapy of the Brain in Hurler's Syndrome<= o:p>	$100,000
ArmaGen Technologies (Santa Monica)	Zha= ng, Yun	Rec= ombinant Enzyme Fusion Protein for Lysosomal Storage Disorders	$456,597
= Curelab (Sherman Oaks)	Ilyinskii, Peter	Mod= ification of Conserved Influenza Genes Enabling their Elevated Expression	$103,180
= DxRay (Northridge)=	Bar= ber, William	Nov= el Photon Counting Clinical CT Detectors	$142,001
= DxRay (Northridge)	Bar= ber, William	A N= ovel In-Vivo Cell Tracking System Based on Combined XCT and FT	$422,899
= Encod= e Bio (Pasadena)	Shi= va, Nima	Nov= el assay to identify small molecule erythropoietin mimetics	$204,828
= IMM= PORT Therapeutics. (Irvine)	Delamaza, Luis	Sca= nning Chlamydia proteome for vaccine antigens	$299,255
= IMM= PORT Therapeutics. (Irvine)	Liang, Xiaowu	Ant= ibodies to malaria blood stages in mixed-species infections	$300,000<= /span>
= Innosense (Torrance)	Alam, Maksudul	Det= ection of Alzheimer’s disease using a polymer nanowir= e-based biosensor	$167,753
= Intell= igent Optical Systems (Torrance)	Kun= g, Irene	Ult= ra-Stable Test Strip System for Multiplexed Detection of Enteric Pathogens	$155,715
= = Maxwell Sensors (Santa Fe Springs)	Col= lins, John	Nanodroplets Based High Throughput Single-Cell PCR System	$150,019
= = Maxwell Sensors (Santa Fe Springs)	Fan= g, Greg	A P= arallel High-Throughput Pharmacogenetic Profiling Ass= ay for Clinical Use	$379,776
= = Maxwell Sensors (Santa Fe Springs)	Tajbakhsh, Jian	Sin= gle Cell RNA Amplification Nanodrop Processor	$156,235
= Mayachitra (Santa Barbara)<= /u>	Solanki, Kaushal=	dbVision: A toolbox for bioimage databases	$390,972
= Modulated Imaging (Aliso Viejo)	Cuccia, David John	Qua= ntitative Optical Imaging of Cortical Hemodynamics in A= nimal Models	$100,025
= Molecular Express (Rancho Dominguez)	Fujii, Gary	Liposomal Adjuvant for Vaccine Development	$299,985
= Neurocomp Systems (Irvine)=	O’halloran, James P	Com= puterized Early Dementia Assessment System	$619,406
= NeuroinDx (Los Angeles)	Karsten, Stanislav	Rat= transcriptome biomarkers for the prediction of temp= oral lobe epilepsy	$490,772
= Syagen Technologies (Tustin)	Syage, Jack Albert	A D= ual Electrospray/Photoionization Source	$132,501