COMPANY

Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp

HQ: Santa Barbara, CA (US office) source · photothermal.com ↗ · West Coast

Location: Santa Barbara, CA (US office) · source · Oct 15, 2026

Profile checked Oct 10, 2026

10NIH grants

Funding and NIH signals

NIH award NIH awarded $307K (SBIR Phase I 1R43GM165235-01, new, notice Aug 27, 2026); 2 NIH awards totaling $1.33M in the last 12 months. NIH RePORTER 1R43GM165235-01 (Aug 27, 2026)
Evidence (2 events)
- Aug 27, 2026 · NIH RePORTER 1R43GM165235-01
  Organization: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP.; City/State: SANTA BARBARA, CA; Project number: 1R43GM165235-01; Activity code: R43; Fiscal year: 2026; Award notice date: 2026-08-27; FY total cost (award amount): 306802; Administering IC: National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Project title: High-Speed, High-Content, Label-Free Live-Cell Chemical Imaging in Multiwell Plates Using Photothermal Stimulated Raman Scattering (PT-SRS) Microscopy; Organization type: Domestic For-Profits
- Aug 13, 2026 · NIH RePORTER 1R44ES035665-01A1
  Organization: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP.; City/State: SANTA BARBARA, CA; Project number: 1R44ES035665-01A1; Activity code: R44; Fiscal year: 2026; Award notice date: 2026-08-13; FY total cost (award amount): 1022908; Administering IC: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Project title: High-Speed Automated Analysis of Sub-20 µm Microplastics by Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy; Organization type: Domestic For-Profits

Job counts as of Oct 18, 2026. All funding and NIH signals

Timeline

Aug 27, 2026 Grant Government grant — SBIR: $306,802 (annual award, as published), announced Aug 27, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗
Aug 13, 2026 Grant Government grant — SBIR: $1.02M (annual award, as published), announced Aug 13, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIEHS. Source: government award database. source ↗
Jul 2, 2025 Grant Government grant — SBIR: $959,255 (annual award, as published), announced Jul 2, 2025. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗

Funding

Last 2 years.

Aug 27, 2026 Government grant — SBIR: $306,802 (annual award, as published), announced Aug 27, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗
Aug 13, 2026 Government grant — SBIR: $1.02M (annual award, as published), announced Aug 13, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIEHS. Source: government award database. source ↗
Jul 2, 2025 Government grant — SBIR: $959,255 (annual award, as published), announced Jul 2, 2025. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗

NIH awards 10

Annual award amounts. Total $6.2M.

Jul 3, 2024 NIH award 1R44GM154516-01 FY2024: $967,628 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI PRATER, CRAIG; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. Video Rate Photothermal Infrar source ↗
Aug 15, 2023 NIH award 5R44GM142346-03 FY2023: $861,541 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI PRATER, CRAIG; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. Fluorescence Enhanced Photothe source ↗
Aug 30, 2022 NIH award 2R44GM142346-02 FY2022: $865,376 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI PRATER, CRAIG; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. Fluorescence Enhanced Photothe source ↗
Apr 19, 2021 NIH award 5R44EB027018-03 FY2021: $806,835 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI PRATER, CRAIG; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. IRaman: Breakthrough biomedica source ↗
Apr 2, 2021 NIH award 1R43GM142346-01 FY2021: $256,583 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI PRATER, CRAIG; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. Fluorescence Enhanced Photothe source ↗
Aug 13, 2020 NIH award 5R42CA224844-03 FY2020: $600,000 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R42 (STTR); PI CHENG, JI-XIN; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. Optical photothermal IR (O-PTI source ↗
Apr 7, 2020 NIH award 2R44EB027018-02 FY2020: $817,111 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI PRATER, CRAIG; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. IRaman: Breakthrough biomedica source ↗
Sep 12, 2019 NIH award 2R42CA224844-02 FY2019: $600,000 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R42 (STTR); PI CHENG, JI-XIN; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. Optical photothermal IR (O-PTI source ↗
Sep 1, 2018 NIH award 1R43EB027018-01 FY2018: $204,940 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI PRATER, CRAIG; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. ConProject-001 source ↗
Sep 1, 2018 NIH award 1R43EB027018-01 FY2018: $219,286 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI PRATER, CRAIG; recipient as written: PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP., SANTA BARBARA, CA. IRaman: Breakthrough biomedica source ↗