Office of Research

Screening for Conditions by Electronic Nose Technology (SCENT) (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)

This FOA is seeking applications for a portable sensing device to detect volatile organic compounds (VOCs, i.e. scents or odors) emanating from skin and to develop a catalog of VOCs as distinct signatures for at least 20 human diseases and conditions. These sensing devices must be able to associate VOC patterns using artificial intelligence to patients with various conditions for diagnostic purposes along with capabilities to incorporate and integrate vital signs. For VOC monitoring, these sensing devices can be Electronic-nose (E-nose) technology, Gas Chromatography (GC) or any sensing technology able to detect VOC patterns associated with disease. This new program is called SCENT, which stands for Screening for Conditions by E-Nose Technology.

 

To ensure project success, this FOA requires multidisciplinary collaborations and a team science approach. Groups may include a combination of the following: Biomedical engineers, material scientists, biosensing experts, software engineers, chemists, clinicians, clinical trialists, biostatisticians, data analysts and/or other relevant experts in academia and industry.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

  1. a 2 page letter describing how the sensing device will be developed and the multidisciplinary team that will be involved.
  2. CV (not NIH format)  of the PI

 

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday April 1, 2021. Proposals are due to the sponsor 6/10/21, so you will need to have your materials in to OSP by 6/1/21, if given the go ahead by the review committee.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

RFA-TR-21-009

Deadlines
04/01/2021 UW Internal Deadline Closed
06/01/2021 OSP Deadline
06/10/2021 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Funding amount

$0 (Application budgets are limited to $650,000 direct cost per year for Years 1 and 2, and $800,000 direct cost per year for Years 3 - 5.)

Maximum Number of Applications

1

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.