Block Grant 2020VDBX0784

This $968,765 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) will develop a flexible modeling framework to simulate the impact of various testing-based infection control strategies for respiratory pathogens like SARS-CoV-2. The project aims to improve our ability to control existing respiratory diseases and enhance preparedness for future pandemics. Key deliverables include: Developing a...

The University of Rochester received a $2.667 million Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director to conduct testing for COVID-19 in high risk children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The grant is funded through the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), which provides assistance awards and supplements for multiple offices in the NIH Office of the Director. Under the award, the University...

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded $363,998 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of California Irvine on July 15, 2021. The Project Grant supports the University of California Irvine in conducting a nationally representative survey titled "Responding to Turbulent Times: Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath in a Probability-Based US National Sample." Under the award, the...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $195,381 Project Grant to Washington State University under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant aims to fund the RAPID project "Curtailing Nosocomial Amplification of COVID-19," which seeks to develop epidemiological models to better understand and mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 in healthcare settings. As part of the grant, Research Triangle Institute will...

The Hektoen Institute For Medical Research will provide $1.5 million in Covid-19 testing, vaccination, and mobile health unit services under a cooperative agreement awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF) on March 15, 2021. Funded through ACF's Family Violence Prevention and Services/Discretionary program (CFDA #93.592), the services aim to support the agency's goal of providing resource information, training, and technical assistance...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a 3-year, $2,561,480 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866) to Brigham & Women's Hospital to study the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) and subsequent disease progression in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD). The project aims to: 1) understand the epidemiology of PASC in cognitively impaired individuals; 2) examine the impacts of COVID-19 and PASC on disease...

This $500,000 Project Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, under the Emergency Grants to Address Mental and Substance Use Disorders During COVID-19 program (CFDA 93.665), will fund the Cow Creek Health & Wellness Center Mental Health & Substance Use COVID-19 Relief Program. The Program will integrate evidence-based mental health treatment, awareness, and crisis services into existing efforts by hiring two new qualified staff to provide early...

Federal Grant Award Summary Assistech Systems LLC (operating as Cognitopia) received a $287,500 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), CFDA 93.433, awarded on June 1, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2027. The company will develop a product-ready Person-Centered System for Emergency Preparedness (PSEP) designed to improve emergency preparedness and response...

This $201,299 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop novel predictive models of epidemic spread dynamics and validate those models using COVID-19 data. The funding will be used to conduct fundamental research advancing the scientific understanding of how uncertainties in human behavior and pathogen characteristics influence spatial and temporal stochastic epidemic dynamics. Specific aims of the research include developing new predictive dynamic models based on...

The University of California, San Diego received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) to evaluate COVID-19 mitigation strategies in schools using a spatially-explicit agent-based model of infection dynamics. The award, issued on October 1, 2021, will support research through September 30, 2023 to develop a computational model to simulate the spread of COVID-19...