Block Grant E11GD000004

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. a Project Grant totaling $402,750 (awarded August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2029) under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) to develop large language models (LLMs) for drug safety and effectiveness causal analysis. The project addresses a critical gap in pharmacoepidemiologic research by creating an LLM-based analytical...

Federal Project Grant Summary The University of Pennsylvania received a $1.45 million Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) on June 1, 2026, with an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2030. The award funds the development of statistical methodologies for integrating irregularly collected longitudinal multi-modal data—including electronic health records (EHR), patient-reported outcomes (PRO),...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, San Francisco received a $249,000 Project Grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) awarded August 5, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. This award funds the development of a data science framework designed to transform electronic health records (EHRs) into real-world evidence by integrating EHR data with randomized controlled...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Clairyon, Inc. received a $410,924 Project Grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879), awarded on September 1, 2025, with a completion date of February 28, 2026. The award supports development and prospective validation of QUALLM (an automated quality measure abstraction toolset), which leverages Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards and generative...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879), awarded Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory $1,164,870 on September 27, 2025, for a project titled "Modernizing the Hierarchical Data Modeling Framework to Advance FAIR Data for Science." The project, which extends through August 31, 2027, focuses on enhancing the Hierarchical Data Modeling Framework (HDMF)—an open-source...

This Project Grant from the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, provides $769,755 to develop an unbiased machine learning tool for the prediction of acute coronary syndrome. The tool aims to minimize bias in predictions between patient demographic groups, as measured by equal opportunity difference and the Zemel statistic, to ensure machine learning algorithms do not exacerbate...

This federal Project Grant award under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), will support a $142,864 project to use natural language processing and generative AI models to capture social determinants of health (SDH) information from patients. The goal is to process this SDH data into discrete elements that can be integrated into the electronic health record and used by clinical decision...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879), awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $588,676 Project Grant (awarded July 14, 2026, with completion targeted for April 30, 2031) to develop automated quantitative dataset audit methods for identifying bias, shortcuts, and robustness risks in data-driven healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications. The...

Summary of Federal Project Grant Award The University of New Mexico received a $114,043 project grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) awarded June 1, 2026, with completion scheduled for May 31, 2027. The award supports scholarly research and monograph development for "Bringing Up Baby: Race, Infant Mortality, and the Creation of Prenatal Care, 1900-1930," a history of medicine project that traces...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $419,011 to Emory University to develop innovative dimensionality reduction techniques for assessing the joint health effects of air pollution mixtures. The research aims to advance causal modeling approaches that preserve the relationships between air pollutants and health outcomes, in order to provide more accurate assessments of the public...