GENCIRQ, INC. — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase I: NIDA

GENCIRQ, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Health and Human Services.

Amount
$225,000
Agency
Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
NIDA
NAICS
Place of performance
CA
Period

Description

To test the hypothesis that many toxicities seen upon systemic administration can be mitigated via local delivery to the tumor siteGencirqIncwill deliver toxic protein or peptide therapeutic candidates via engineered bacteria to greatly enhance safety and localization of therapyGencirqIncwill develop a multi step in vitro testing pipeline for bacterial therapeutic strains to efficiently identify effective therapeutics from a library of naturally occurring proteins and peptides for future animal testing