Does the US National Institutes of Health grant behind the peer-reviewed paper mean NIH has endorsed or reviewed NanoFlashing™?

Does the US National Institutes of Health grant behind the peer-reviewed paper mean NIH has endorsed or reviewed NanoFlashing™?

No. The NIH grant supported part of the published research, and the company does not present it as an NIH review, endorsement or approval of NanoFlashing™.

The peer-reviewed paper is Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, September 2024, doi 10.1128/spectrum.04097-23. The published paper states that the work was supported by unrestricted grants from C-POLAR Technologies, Inc., and in part by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS), the KGH Foundation and the University of British Columbia Okanagan, and that its authors declare no conflict of interest; it also states: “A.R. receives consulting fees from C-POLAR Technologies, Inc.” Three of its 31 authors list C-POLAR Technologies as their affiliation. The work was also supported in part by the US National Institutes of Health, grant AI132638, to M.K.M., which NIH RePORTER lists as Prof. Mansour's grant at Massachusetts General Hospital; the grant is printed in the paper's manuscript rather than in the published acknowledgments. The Terms of Use state: “A citation, quotation, name, logo, link, or third-party test does not by itself mean that the third party sponsors, endorses, certifies, or approves C-POLAR, a C-POLAR product, a Site claim, or a proposed use.” No authority has approved, registered, endorsed or cleared the filter; the company classifies its own article.

Source: Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, September 2024, doi 10.1128/spectrum.04097-23; NIH RePORTER, project R01AI132638, read on 20 September 2026, https://reporter.nih.gov/; C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 7, https://cpolar.tech/terms/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.