Continuous Monitoring of Alcohol Use by Wearable Biosensors -- SBIR Fast-Track Award

The research under this contract is toward the development of next-generation, wearable continuous alcohol monitoring (CAM) technology designed to measure, record, and store Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) in real time. This SBIR “Fast-Track”-type contract contains a base contract requirement for an SBIR Phase I Study and a contract option for an SBIR Phase II Study. This SBIR contract is awarded under NIAAA Topic Area 018, "Alcohol Biosensor Development for Continuous Alcohol Consumption Monitoring", contained in SBIR Solicitation PHS 2020-1. The SBIR Phase I Study (base contract requirement) will perform analysis toward validating the technology of a new, discreet, wearable, stable, selective and highly sensitive enzymatic biosensor and algorithms that can detect alcohol in real-time and directly from interstitial fluid and evaluate its concentration in a mixture similar to human serum. The SBIR Phase II Study (contract option) will further refine and optimize the performance of the sensor probe and integrate it into a compact, lightweight prototype device ready to use in research studies that will effectively demonstrate its potential to private investors to support commercialization.