Cooperative Agreement W81XWH1920043

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command provides $3,940,561 to fund the "Breathing Low Oxygen to Enhance Spinal Stimulation Training and Functional Recovery in Persons with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: The BO2ST Trial" project under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The award period is from September 30, 2022 through September 29, 2026. The project aims to investigate the extent to which daily acute intermittent hypoxia...

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, will conduct the "POWER FORWARD STUDY: A CROSS-SECTOR, MULTISITE CLINICAL TRIAL OF A POWERED KNEE-ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS" project under a $1.679 million project grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command. The grant was awarded on August 1, 2022 and will support project activities through July 31, 2026. The project aims to transform health care for service members and the public through...

This $556,160 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (CFDA 93.846) aims to examine the efficacy of a rehabilitation approach called Rehabilitation with Exercise and Psychological Support (REPS) for patients who have undergone ACL reconstruction surgery. The REPS intervention integrates standard exercise rehabilitation with psychological support, including clinician training, patient education videos, and techniques like...

AWARD SUMMARY The University of Texas at El Paso received a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR, CFDA 93.433) awarded September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The project will conduct a longitudinal, single-blind, randomized controlled non-inferiority trial evaluating Tele-CPASS, a telerehabilitation adaptation of the Critical Periods After Stroke (CPASS) intervention, against in-person CPASS therapy for...

The Defense Health Agency awarded a $3,977,103 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program to The Washington University to conduct a 4-year clinical trial on nerve transfer surgeries to improve upper limb function and quality of life for patients with high-level cervical spinal cord injuries. The study aims to address critical information gaps on the use of nerve transfer procedures in this patient population. The project will be executed through a...

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. This award funds research on paired stimulation plasticity for motor recovery in cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The project investigates two neural stimulation methods—spinal...

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $543,172 to the University of Florida to investigate trunk control and coordination during walking in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury (ISCI). The 2-year study aims to: 1) Quantify coordination of trunk movements during walking in ISCI compared to controls, and 2)...

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, was awarded a $1,495,210 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to evaluate powered prosthetic legs for use with individuals who have had a unilateral transfemoral amputation. The four-year project beginning August 15, 2022 aims to assess functional, metabolic, biomechanical and user device control outcomes when...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center received a $150,104 Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), effective March 2, 2026, with a completion date of September 3, 2028. The award funds research investigating cardiovascular and respiratory responses to physical activity and heat stress in burn survivors. The project aims to evaluate the efficacy of...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $346,369 will fund the development of a novel gait training method for individuals after stroke from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding supports Syracuse University under the NSF Engineering Directorate's program to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation. Specifically, the grant will advance knowledge on enhancing muscle power and propulsion, a key barrier to improved walking after stroke. The...