COMPANY

Tango Biosciences

HQ: Chicago, IL source · tangobio.com ↗ · Midwest

Service / Tools company

Keywords: research tools

Location: Chicago, IL · source · Oct 14, 2026

Profile checked Oct 10, 2026

7NIH grants

Funding and NIH signals

NIH award NIH awarded $1.15M (SBIR Phase II 2R44GM146514-02, competing renewal, notice Sep 1, 2026); 2 NIH awards totaling $1.48M in the last 12 months. NIH RePORTER 2R44GM146514-02 (Sep 1, 2026)
Evidence (2 events)
- Sep 1, 2026 · NIH RePORTER 2R44GM146514-02
  Organization: TANGO BIOSCIENCES, INC.; City/State: CHICAGO, IL; Project number: 2R44GM146514-02; Activity code: R44; Fiscal year: 2026; Award notice date: 2026-09-01; FY total cost (award amount): 1150462; Administering IC: National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Project title: Generating phosphobodies to activated protein kinases; Organization type: Domestic For-Profits
- Aug 24, 2026 · NIH RePORTER 1R43GM165191-01
  Organization: TANGO BIOSCIENCES, INC.; City/State: CHICAGO, IL; Project number: 1R43GM165191-01; Activity code: R43; Fiscal year: 2026; Award notice date: 2026-08-24; FY total cost (award amount): 332917; Administering IC: National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Project title: Peptide Glues; Organization type: Domestic For-Profits

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

Timeline

Sep 1, 2026 Grant Government grant — SBIR: $1.15M (annual award, as published), announced Sep 1, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗
Aug 24, 2026 Grant Government grant — SBIR: $332,917 (annual award, as published), announced Aug 24, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗
Jul 2, 2025 Grant Government grant — SBIR: $314,363 (annual award, as published), announced Jul 2, 2025. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗

Funding

Last 2 years.

Sep 1, 2026 Government grant — SBIR: $1.15M (annual award, as published), announced Sep 1, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗
Aug 24, 2026 Government grant — SBIR: $332,917 (annual award, as published), announced Aug 24, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗
Jul 2, 2025 Government grant — SBIR: $314,363 (annual award, as published), announced Jul 2, 2025. Agency: NIH/NIGMS. Source: government award database. source ↗

NIH awards 7

Annual award amounts. Total $1.6M.

May 1, 2023 NIH award 1R43AI174404-01 FY2023: $256,776 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI KAY, BRIAN KENNETH; recipient as written: TANGO BIOSCIENCES, INC., CHICAGO, IL. High-throughput profiling of proteases source ↗
Apr 12, 2023 NIH award 1R43AI172709-01A1 FY2023: $275,606 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI KAY, BRIAN KENNETH; recipient as written: TANGO BIOSCIENCES, INC., CHICAGO, IL. Generating fast-on rate reagents for source ↗
Apr 15, 2022 NIH award 1R43GM146514-01 FY2022: $222,933 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI KAY, BRIAN KENNETH; recipient as written: TANGO BIOSCIENCES, INC., CHICAGO, IL. Building a pipeline to generate affinit source ↗
Dec 22, 2020 NIH award 1R43AI157021-01 FY2021: $222,329 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI KAY, BRIAN KENNETH; recipient as written: TANGO BIOSCIENCES, INC., CHICAGO, IL. Building a Toolbox to Study the SARS-Co source ↗
Jul 21, 2020 NIH award 3R41GM134782-01S1 FY2020: $183,318 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R41 (STTR); PI KAY, BRIAN KENNETH; recipient as written: TANGO BIOSCIENCES, INC., CHICAGO, IL. Array Based Affinity Selection source ↗
Aug 27, 2019 NIH award 1R41GM134782-01 FY2019: $224,009 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R41 (STTR); PI KAY, BRIAN KENNETH; recipient as written: TANGO BIOSCIENCES, INC., CHICAGO, IL. Array Based Affinity Selection source ↗
Mar 19, 2018 NIH award 1R41TR002283-01A1 FY2018: $223,556 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R41 (STTR); PI KAY, BRIAN KENNETH; recipient as written: TANGO BIOSCIENCES, INC., CHICAGO, IL. Generating sandwich assays through Me source ↗