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| Hadi Shafiee, PhD |
Hadi Shafiee, PhD, of the Division of Engineering in Medicine, received a Fast-Track Phase II grant from the National Institutes of Health‘s Small Business Innovation Research program (NIH SBIR). This award grants funds to small businesses that promise technological innovation, potential for commercialization, and impressive entrepreneurship.
This award will fund the commercialization of a smartphone-based semen analysis technology for male infertility screening developed in Shafiee’s lab at the Brigham. Shafiee is the co-founder of Firtility Inc., a company that aims to enable easy, at-home male-fertility screening.
Shafiee’s lab at the Brigham focuses on developing innovative diagnostic tools to address unmet clinical challenges. His lab has published scientific work on smartphone-based semen analysis technology in Science Translational Medicine, which was covered by over 200 news outlets — notably CNN, The New York Times, NBC and The Guardian.
The NIH SBIR is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development with the potential for commercialization.
