The University of Minnesota's Institute on Community Integration (ICI) received a $900,000 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) to address gaps in service access and coordination for transition-age youth and young adults with epilepsy and co-occurring autism, intellectual disability, or cerebral palsy. The project aims to improve coordination and communication among education,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (CFDA 93.286 - Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health) is supporting the development, evaluation, and regulatory preparation for a new image-guided robotic system to assist with orthopaedic implant placement in pediatric procedures. The $622,302 award to the Children's Research Institute aims to integrate a low-profile robotic guidance system with 2D and...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110), aims to establish an Integrative Newborn Screening-Long-Term Follow-Up (INBS-LTFU) Consortium. The $2,025,600 award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2028, will enable Emory University to work with a consortium of four states (Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana) to improve the efficiency and...
This $1,060,600 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) will be used by the South Dakota Department of Health to strengthen the state's newborn screening (NBS) system. The key activities include:
Improving data collection and surveillance to better track NBS trends, target education and outreach, and inform the state's NBS advisory...
The Children's Hospital Corporation, doing business as Boston Children's Hospital, was awarded a $777,927 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program. The grant will support research into targeting PARP signaling as a novel treatment for urologic complications of spinal cord injury from August 15, 2023 through August 14, 2026. The Military Medical Research and Development program aims to advance biomedical solutions for battlefield...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health, awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant to the School-Based Health Alliance (doing business as the National Assembly On School-Based Health Care) under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137). The funding will support a 4-year project to enhance care coordination in rural school-based health centers in order to improve health outcomes for minority youth. The School-Based Health...
This $213,750 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a prospective, single-center, observational cohort study on the accuracy and feasibility of point-of-care, low-field brain magnetic resonance imaging (POC LF-MRI) for pediatric head trauma. The study aims to (1) determine the accuracy of POC LF-MRI for traumatic brain injury (TBI)...
This Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $711,403 to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) to support a noninvasive neurotrophic factor treatment to repair injured spinal cords. The award period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. As a leading pediatric teaching hospital and research center, Boston Children's Hospital will leverage its expertise...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $394,696 Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to The Children's Hospital Corporation, doing business as Boston Children's Hospital, to conduct the "Social Risk Screening and Referral Implementation for All Pediatric Hospitals - The SOCIAL-H Study". The project aims to gain a better understanding of how to implement social risk screening and referral interventions in pediatric inpatient settings...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) will support a cluster-randomized trial to evaluate implementation strategies for increasing the real-world use of Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy (SMART) in the management of moderate-to-severe pediatric asthma.
The $797,130 award to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will fund a type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation study...