This Project Grant award, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, supports a comprehensive $398,972 study on improving healthcare quality and equity for newborns with prenatal substance exposure. The study, conducted by the University of California, Davis in collaboration with the Better Outcomes through Research for Newborns (BORN) network and the EMPOWER stakeholder group, aims to:...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program provides $795,848 to the University of California, Davis to investigate the impacts of prenatal wildfire smoke exposure on maternal immune dysregulation, epigenetic changes in children, and associated child neurodevelopmental and behavioral outcomes. The 5-year study aims to enhance understanding of the immunologic and epigenetic...
This 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), provides $158,216 to the President and Fellows of Harvard College's Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to conduct a longitudinal, mixed-methods study on the effects of prenatal exposure to maternal incarceration on infant and toddler health and development. The research will analyze data from the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (CFDA 93.113 Environmental Health) will support a research study at New York University (NYU) to examine the relationship between prenatal and postnatal exposure to phthalates and bisphenols, and their impact on infant reproductive development during the "minipuberty" period in the first 6 months of life. The $719,892 award will fund the recruitment of 480 infants and their mothers, collection of...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director, under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), will provide $164,561 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to study the relationship between prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, child neurodevelopmental disorders, and the potential mediating role of cytokines and DNA methylation. The research aims to: (1) examine associations between prenatal endocrine disrupting...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, will support the career development of Dr. Alexandra Heaney, a climate epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The $162,024 award, effective February 1, 2025 through January 31, 2028, aims to advance Dr. Heaney's expertise in environmental and perinatal epidemiological methods, dust exposure science, and...
This federal Project Grant award of $695,853 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports research on the impact of prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on children's development. The award will fund a collaborative effort between the Arkansas Children's Research Institute, Emory University, and the University of Kentucky Research Foundation to investigate how prenatal PFAS exposure...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $149,000 in funding to the University of Oregon to conduct a longitudinal study examining the developmental trajectories of autonomic reactivity and regulation in children exposed prenatally to cannabis and tobacco. The key objectives of the study are to: 1) examine changes in parasympathetic nervous system functioning from infancy to early...
This $382,226 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development supports the development of a platform for uncovering new drug safety information through analysis of linked electronic health records. Vanderbilt University Medical Center will analyze 48,434 linked maternal and neonatal EHRs to apply a medication-wide association study and discover associations between maternal drug exposures and...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a 5-year, $504,283 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The grant will fund a study examining the epidemiology and risk factors for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children born preterm, and determine if the genetic architecture of ASD differs between preterm and term-born children. The study will create a prospective...