Cooperative Agreement 90SM0012

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Mentia DTX Inc. received a $505,561 Project Grant awarded on July 1, 2025, by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866). The award supports development of MentiaCompanion, an artificial intelligence-based virtual companion system designed to track changing health states in persons living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The solution addresses health inequities affecting the nation's 6.8 million...

Foresightcares Inc. received a $275,992 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a multimodal artificial intelligence system for remote health monitoring of seniors. The award period is from March 15, 2022 through February 28, 2023. Through computer vision, sensor fusion, and artificial intelligence algorithms, Foresightcares will create a training framework to analyze seniors' daily activities,...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Boston University Medical Campus received a $323,825 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), awarded January 1, 2026, with completion targeted for December 31, 2027. This award supports the development of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools and machine learning models designed to enhance early detection of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) using digital neuropsychological...

This $550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will support the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) solution for accurate medical coding to improve healthcare billing. The project, led by St. John's University in New York, aims to overcome limitations of current automated biomedical content annotation systems, such as bias, errors, and lack of adaptability. The AI-driven system...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Aging awarded Massachusetts General Hospital a $258,660 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 – Aging Research program) effective June 15, 2025, through March 31, 2030, to develop and validate a machine learning-based framework for early detection and prognostication of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). The project deliverables include the creation of a multi-modal biomarker integration system that combines digital biomarkers...

Federal Grant Award Summary Carevirtue Technologies, Inc. received a $499,651 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), awarded September 20, 2025, with completion targeted for September 19, 2026. The awardee is developing an artificial intelligence-enabled dementia care agent designed to provide 24/7 support to rural Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) care partners. The AI system integrates a large language model with...

This $1,933,556 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under its Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) will support research to assess the impact of hospital-based health information technology (hospital-HIT) on healthcare quality and equity for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The primary awardee, the University of Maryland, College Park, will conduct a ten-year longitudinal study to evaluate how hospital-HIT systems that promote care...

This $249,250 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of an AI coaching system to enhance surgical teamwork in cardiac operating rooms. Over four years, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will design multimodal hardware and algorithms to model, monitor, and generate interpretable feedback on teamwork dynamics using data from cardiac procedures. The goal is to mitigate human...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Vigorous Mind, Inc. received a $499,981 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) awarded on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2026. The grant funds the development and feasibility demonstration of an autonomous robot designed to deliver a multicomponent non-pharmacological intervention to reduce delirium in hospitalized elderly patients living with dementia. Delirium, an acute...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Aging awarded a $6.93 million Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Health Sciences Division) under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) for the period August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2029. The award funds research to develop a Multi-Organ AI-derived Endophenotype (MAE)—a multi-organ computational chart designed to personalize patient stratification, predict Alzheimer's disease and...