Cooperative Agreement U01DD001077

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded Shirley Ryan AbilityLab a $2.86 million Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 – Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, to conduct research on paired stimulation plasticity for motor recovery in cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The research focuses on developing and validating two targeted neural...

COMPASS Ancillary Neurodevelopmental Outcomes (CAN-DO) Project Grant Summary The University of Colorado-Denver received a $1,484,760 Project Grant awarded July 15, 2025, by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to conduct a prospective longitudinal neurodevelopmental outcomes study. The CAN-DO project serves as an ancillary study to the COMPASS (Comparison of Methods of Pulmonary Blood Flow Augmentation in Neonates:...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) an $800,000 Cooperative Agreement on August 19, 2025, under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) to establish the Advancing Craniosynostosis Treatment (ACT) Rare Diseases Consortium. The award extends through May 31, 2030, and will support a comprehensive, multi-site clinical research initiative to advance the...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded the University of Colorado-Denver a Cooperative Agreement totaling $1.75M under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) for the Network for Advancing Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy Research Readiness (NASCARR) initiative. Effective September 15, 2025, through August 31, 2030, this award supports community-based participatory research (CBPR)...

This Project Grant award of $305,447, issued on September 2, 2024 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research), aims to identify predictive biomarkers for acute intermittent hypoxia-induced motor recovery in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury. The research team from the University of Colorado will: 1) Validate the cellular mechanisms underlying hypoxia-induced plasticity in humans, using...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $258,283 on September 15, 2025, under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA 93.853) to Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc. to establish the Batten Disease Clinical Research Consortium (BDCRC) Career Enhancement Core. The primary deliverables include: (1) a structured...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) received a Cooperative Agreement award of $805,722 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), effective August 6, 2025, through July 31, 2030. The award supports the Continued Pressure for Alveolar Protection: A Randomized Controlled Trial (CPAP Trial), a clinical research initiative addressing...

Stillbirth Research Consortium Data Coordinating Center RTI International received a $1.32 million Cooperative Agreement from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), effective September 15, 2025 through July 31, 2030. As the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for the newly established Stillbirth Research Consortium, RTI International provides comprehensive data science, statistical,...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a $2.49 million Cooperative Agreement under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, effective September 1, 2025, through July 31, 2030. The award funds the Collaborative Action for Research to End Stillbirth (CARES) Research Center, which will develop innovative, integrated...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $472,325 Project Grant to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab) on August 4, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The project, "Quantifying Selective Motor Control in Preterm Infants: A Computer Vision Approach," will develop and validate a computer...