NIDCD SBIR Phase I
Supports United States. small businesses developing hearing, balance, and speech sensory technologies.
The NIDCD SBIR Phase I grant (R43) funds small US for-profit companies seeking to establish the technical merit and feasibility of a proposed research or research-and-development effort in areas within the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders' mission. NIDCD's seven programmatic areas include hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language, and its SBIR prog…
Phase I feasibility research for small businesses developing technologies in auditory implants, balance rehabilitation, voice and speech tools, and taste and smell diagnostics.
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