CREARE LLC — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase II: NIDA

CREARE LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Health and Human Services.

Amount
$314,982
Agency
Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase II
Topic
NIDA
NAICS
Place of performance
NH
Period

Description

Modern drug discovery methods require the use of automated liquid handling and dispensing systems for screening large numbers of candidate compounds to identify new drug candidates The use of these high throughput methods has been made possible by the development of automated systems that can dispense extremely small volumes of reagent at high speed However many of the reagents used in testing these experiments contain salts or proteins which can clog the small dispensing nozzles after they crystallize or precipitate out of solution At present there is no way to dynamically monitor the dispensing process so clogged nozzles can contaminate a large portion of the run leading to significant waste in both cost and time