COMPANY

Riptide Bioscience

HQ: Vallejo, CA source · riptidebio.com ↗ · West Coast

Also known as RIPTIDE BIOSCIENCE, INC · 5 sources

Riptide Bioscience develops peptide therapeutics engineered from host defense peptides, with programs in infectious disease, fibrosis and oncology. From company website Source · Oct 12, 2026

Keywords: peptides infectious disease fibrosis oncology

Location: Vallejo, CA · source · Oct 15, 2026

Profile checked Oct 10, 2026

4NIH grants

Funding and NIH signals

NIH award NIH awarded $1M (SBIR Phase II 1R44AI197713-01, new, notice Aug 1, 2026). NIH RePORTER 1R44AI197713-01 (Aug 1, 2026)
Evidence (1 event)
- Aug 1, 2026 · NIH RePORTER 1R44AI197713-01
  Organization: RIPTIDE BIOSCIENCE, INC.; City/State: VALLEJO, CA; Project number: 1R44AI197713-01; Activity code: R44; Fiscal year: 2026; Award notice date: 2026-08-01; FY total cost (award amount): 1000000; Administering IC: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Project title: A Designed Host Defense Peptide to Prevent Burn Infections; Organization type: Domestic For-Profits

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

Timeline

Aug 1, 2026 Grant Government grant — SBIR: $1M (annual award, as published), announced Aug 1, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIAID. Source: government award database. source ↗

Funding

Last 2 years.

Aug 1, 2026 Government grant — SBIR: $1M (annual award, as published), announced Aug 1, 2026. Agency: NIH/NIAID. Source: government award database. source ↗

NIH awards 4

Annual award amounts. Total $1.0M.

Sep 18, 2018 NIH award 1R43DK116503-01A1 FY2018: $278,046 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI CLEMENS, LOUIS EDWARD; recipient as written: RIPTIDE BIOSCIENCE, INC., VALLEJO, CA. Designed Host Defense Pepties for source ↗
2018 NIH contract (government contract; not a grant and not an investment round) 261201800023C-0-0-1 FY2018: $299,847 awarded for that fiscal year; activity N01 (OTHER_NIH); PI MARTIN, GEORGE; recipient as written: RIPTIDE BIOSCIENCE, INC., VALLEJO, CA. Topic 371 - source ↗
Sep 15, 2017 NIH award 1R43AR073036-01 FY2017: $224,169 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI WOODBURN, KATHRYN W; recipient as written: RIPTIDE BIOSCIENCE, INC., VALLEJO, CA. Designed Antimicrobial Peptides for T source ↗
Jul 23, 2014 NIH award 1R43EY024463-01 FY2014: $222,179 awarded for that fiscal year; activity R43 (SBIR); PI CLEMENS, LOUIS EDWARD; recipient as written: RIPTIDE BIOSCIENCE, INC., VALLEJO, CA. Designed Host Defense Peptides for source ↗