GUILD ASSOCIATES INC — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase I: 114
GUILD ASSOCIATES INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Health and Human Services.
- Amount
- $299,971
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 114
- Solicitation
- PHS-2023-1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OH
- Period
- —
Description
Point-of-Care HIV Viral Load, Drug Resistance, and Adherence Assays: The long-term goals of this program are to develop novel, low-cost, real-time point-of-care (POC) assays for 1. HIV Viral Load Monitoring; 2. HIV Drug Resistance Monitoring; and 3. Pharmacological Adherence Monitoring. This contract aims to develop an electrochemical aptamer-based sensor device for simple, rapid, and low-cost detection and quantification of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs in urine and blood samples at the point-of-care (POC).