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Lucerna

HQ: Brooklyn, NY source · lucernatechnologies.com ↗ · Mid-Atlantic

Service / Tools company

Keywords: research tools high-throughput screening

Location: Brooklyn, NY · source · Oct 15, 2026

Profile checked Oct 10, 2026

27NIH grants

Timeline

Jul 29, 2025 Grant Government grant — SBIR: $313,148 (annual award, as published), announced Jul 29, 2025. Agency: NIH/NIAMS. Source: government award database. source ↗

Funding

Last 2 years.

Jul 29, 2025 Government grant — SBIR: $313,148 (annual award, as published), announced Jul 29, 2025. Agency: NIH/NIAMS. Source: government award database. source ↗

NIH awards 27

Annual award amounts. Total $10.1M.

Jul 29, 2024 NIH award 1R43AI186768-01 FY2024: $300,000 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI O'HANLON, RYAN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Targeted RNA degradation assay for new antiviral dru source ↗
Nov 17, 2023 NIH award 1R43AG085837-01 FY2024: $392,116 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI O'HANLON, RYAN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Cell-based RNA degradation assay for C9ALS/FTD drug source ↗
Aug 9, 2023 NIH award 5R44NS130946-02 FY2023: $874,414 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI SHEN, WEN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Fluorescent IRE sensor for synucleinopathy drug discovery source ↗
Sep 21, 2022 NIH award 1R44NS130946-01 FY2022: $853,817 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI SHEN, WEN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Fluorescent IRE Sensor for Synucleinopathy Drug Discovery source ↗
Mar 30, 2020 NIH award 1R43CA250841-01 FY2020: $223,700 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI O'HANLON, RYAN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Cell-based assay directly monitoring RNA Polymerase source ↗
Mar 20, 2020 NIH award 5R44CA206804-04 FY2020: $533,292 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI O'HANLON, RYAN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Splice sensors for cancer drug discovery source ↗
Dec 5, 2019 NIH award 1R43AI150006-01 FY2020: $224,323 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI O'HANLON, RYAN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Cell-based assay directly monitoring viral polymeras source ↗
Jun 17, 2019 NIH award 5R44CA206804-03 FY2019: $354,915 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI O'HANLON, RYAN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Splice sensors for cancer drug discovery source ↗
2019 NIH contract (government contract; not a grant and not an investment round) 75N91019C00046-0-9999-1 FY2019: $1,480,983 awarded for that fiscal year; activity N44 (OTHER_NIH); PI SOMALINGA, BALAJEE; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. TOPIC 356: source ↗
Nov 19, 2018 NIH award 1R43AT009951-01A1 FY2019: $224,928 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. New high-throughput screening technologies to improve c source ↗
Jul 27, 2018 NIH award 1R43GM130258-01 FY2018: $224,925 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI SOMALINGA, BALAJEE; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Assay Classifier Engine (ACE) for enhancing spli source ↗
Jun 30, 2018 NIH award 1R43AG058338-01A1 FY2018: $221,896 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI CARR, CAROLYN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Fluorescent IRE sensor for PD drug discovery source ↗
May 10, 2018 NIH award 1R43AI140867-01 FY2018: $224,475 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI CARR, CAROLYN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Cell-based viral helicase assay for dengue drug disco source ↗
Mar 19, 2018 NIH award 2R44CA206804-02 FY2018: $603,137 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI SOMALINGA, BALAJEE; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Splice sensors for cancer drug discovery source ↗
2018 NIH contract (government contract; not a grant and not an investment round) 261201700044C-1-0-1 FY2018: $49,973 awarded for that fiscal year; activity N43 (OTHER_NIH); PI SOMALINGA, BALAJEE; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. IGF::OT::IGF SBIR source ↗
Jan 24, 2017 NIH award 1R43GM122166-01 FY2017: $176,165 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Fluorescent reporters for real-time single-cell Pol III t source ↗
2017 NIH contract (government contract; not a grant and not an investment round) 261201700044C-0-0-1 FY2017: $249,642 awarded for that fiscal year; activity N43 (OTHER_NIH); PI SOMALINGA, BALAJEE; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. IGF::OT::IGF SBIR source ↗
Jul 12, 2016 NIH award 5R44MH096366-04 FY2016: $237,583 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. New toolkit to visualize RNAs in living cells source ↗
Jul 5, 2016 NIH award 1R43CA206804-01A1 FY2016: $224,251 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI SOMALINGA, BALAJEE; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Splice sensors for cancer drug discovery source ↗
Aug 5, 2015 NIH award 5R44MH096366-03 FY2015: $507,522 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. New toolkit to visualize RNAs in living cells source ↗
Aug 20, 2014 NIH award 5R43GM105153-02 FY2014: $87,184 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Homogenous NAD assay for ARDT activity measurement source ↗
Jun 24, 2014 NIH award 2R44MH096366-02 FY2014: $503,628 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R44 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. New toolkit to visualize RNAs in living cells source ↗
Jun 20, 2014 NIH award 1R43TR001099-01 FY2014: $207,922 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Fluorescent RNA foci assay for FXTAS drug discovery source ↗
Sep 17, 2013 NIH award 1R43GM105153-01A1 FY2013: $211,753 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Homogenous NAD assay for ARDT activity measurement source ↗
Aug 31, 2012 NIH award 1R43GM101816-01 FY2012: $216,247 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI PAIGE, JEREMY S; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Methyltransferease sensors for homogenous HTS assay source ↗
May 14, 2012 NIH award 1R43MH096366-01A1 FY2012: $315,412 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. New toolkit to visualize RNAs in living cells source ↗
Jul 29, 2011 NIH award 1R43MH094016-01A1 FY2011: $328,597 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI WU, KAREN; recipient as written: LUCERNA, INC., Brooklyn, NY. Clozapine Sensors for Improving Therapeutic Treatments source ↗