[SBIR/STTR Rosters]

The Small Business Biomedical Sensing, Measurement and Instrumentation Scientific Review Group reviews grant applications for the small businesses initiative programs (SBIR and STTR) involving biomedical sensing, measurement, and the development of diagnostic and therapeutic instrumentation.  Research that focuses on the development of innovative sensors may range from fundamental physical, mechanical or chemical transduction through basic measurement principles to the design of novel instruments for clinical use.

Specific areas covered by SSMI:

• Sensor technology: use of sensor technology (including micro- and nanotechnology and micro-electromechanical systems) in the development of medical and medical research instrumentation.
  
  
• Measurement devices and systems: Instruments for the physiological monitoring of patients or experimental animals.
  
  
• Instruments for the diagnosis or treatment of disease.
  
  
• Techniques and technology for processing and controlling physiological signals.
  
  
• Techniques and technology for remote medical diagnosis and computer-assisted diagnosis and therapy.

SSMI has the following shared interests within the SBIB IRG:

• With Small Business Biomedical Sensing, Measurement and Instrumentation [SBMI]: Grant applications proposing the design or development of medical imaging systems, their components, software, or methods of image analysis would be referred to SBMI.  Applications proposing the design or development of instruments for diagnosing disease or physiological monitoring of patients or experimental animals would be referred to SSMI.
  
  
• With Small Business Biomedical Sensing, Surgical Sciences and Technology [SBST]: Grant applications involving the use of biomedical devices for diagnosing or treating human disease would be referred to SBST; if the focus is on instrument development the application should be referred to SSMI.
  
  
• With Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics [BCHI]: Grant applications that focus on informatics would be referred to BCHI; those that develop or use informatics in the context of developing medical devices and instrumentation would be referred to SSMI.

SSMI has the following shared interests outside the SBIB IRG:

• With the Bioengineering Sciences and Technologies [BST] IRG: In general, applications would be referred to BST if the focus of the proposal is technology development, if the instrument being developed will be used in basic research, or if the purpose of the instrument is not known; if the instrument will have medical or medical research applications the proposal would be referred to SSMI.
  
  
• With the organ-system IRGs: Applications having a bioengineering or instrument development focus could be referred to SSMI or to the organ-system IRG depending on the focus of the study.  In general, studies relating to multiple organs would be referred to SSMI.

* If the total number of SBIR/STTR grant applications assigned to is SSMI and SBST is small the two will meet as a single scientific review group.