scite awarded $1.5 million Fast Track SBIR Grant from the National Institutes of Health
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BROOKLYN, NY — May 14, 2020 — scite, a platform for the discovery and evaluation of scientific articles, today announced it has been awarded $1.5 million from Phase II of its Fast-Track Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). During Phase I of the grant, scite added hundreds of millions of citations to their database and significantly improved the accuracy of its deep learning model. More recently, scite was featured in Nature, highlighting the platform’s unique ability to systematically identify what research on Coronavirus and COVID-19 has been supported or contradicted. “We’re humbled by this award and are excited to further develop Smart Citations to make science more reliable,” said Josh Nicholson, co-founder and CEO of scite. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.