This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, supports research to investigate the mechanisms by which the expansion of the CGG short tandem repeat in the FMR1 gene leads to heterochromatinization and ectopic inter-chromosomal contacts, and how this contributes to the pathophysiology of Fragile X Syndrome. The $375,822 award, effective August 10, 2024 through...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, supports critical research for the P2 experiment at the Mainz MESA accelerator in Germany. The $169,673 award, effective November 15, 2024 through October 31, 2029, will fund the design and development of a novel atomic hydrogen polarimeter detector package to enable highly precise beam polarization measurements for the P2 parity-violating electron scattering...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $1,220,412 to the University of Connecticut (UConn) to conduct research on predicting outcomes for students with reading disabilities who receive school-based interventions. The project aims to: Establish trajectories and predictors of reading gains in students with reading disabilities attending private learning disability...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to visualize the mechanisms at the intersection of chromatin, transcription, and epigenetics. The $1,525,500 award to Harvard Medical School aims to develop a combinatorial biochemical and structural approach called "Visual Biochemistry" that uses a fully reconstituted chromatin transcription system and time-resolved single-particle...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $306,872 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program to Pico Portal, Inc. to develop and validate advanced AI-driven tools to automate and increase the efficiency of conducting risk-of-bias (ROB) assessments in environmental health systematic reviews. The project aims to utilize large language models (LLMs) to accurately identify and extract critical text passages related to per- and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $275,112 to the University of Pittsburgh for the project "Bayesian Inference of Whole-Brain Directed Networks using Neuroimaging Data." The project will develop new statistical models and computationally efficient algorithms to analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to better...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $100,000 supported a conference at the University of Maryland, College Park from September 2022 to February 2023. The goal of the conference was to explore human-centered approaches to developing an ethical framework for integrating considerations and constraints into the design of artificial intelligence solutions from requirements gathering through specification. Specifically, the conference addressed knowledge representation methodologies,...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.879 Medical Library Assistance) to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic for the "Long COVID Health Literacy Project" to address health disparities in the care of patients with post-acute COVID syndrome (PACS) in rural northern New England. The project aims to: Develop and disseminate useful, usable, and understandable information for PACS patients and providers through an online...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (CFDA 93.172 - Human Genome Research) provides $404,117 to Panluminate Inc., a woman-owned small business, to develop CHROMEX30, a novel variant of their proprietary Pan-Expansion Microscopy (PAN-EXM) technology. The goal is to enable nanoscale (sub-10 nm) imaging of genetic organization and disease phenotypes, which is currently limited by the complexity and cost of existing correlative light and electron...
The federal Project Grant award of $199,927.00, provided by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433), supports the development of an innovative mobile health (m-health) application called TOP-SEE. The project aims to cultivate and maintain self-efficacy in performing self-management activities for people with multiple sclerosis (PWMS). The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: The development of the...