This Project Grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (CFDA 93.172 - Human Genome Research) provides $404,117 to Panluminate Inc., a woman-owned small business, to develop CHROMEX30 - a novel variant of their proprietary Pan-Expansion Microscopy (PAN-EXM) technology. The goal of this Phase I project is to advance PAN-EXM, an all-optical imaging technique that enables nanoscale analysis of genetic organization and disease phenotypes using standard confocal microscopes. The...
This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, will evaluate the impact of three EHR-optimization interventions on primary care physician (PCP) time, wellbeing, and quality of care. The $1,199,999 award, effective August 1, 2024 through May 31, 2029, will assess the use of scribes, advanced team-based inbox messaging...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $440,079 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct a proof-of-concept study validating a new "penta-omic" extraction method for simultaneously analyzing metabolomic, proteomic, lipidomic, DNA, and RNA profiles from single post-mortem human brain tissue samples. The project aims to create the first comprehensive penta-omic database using normal brain tissue...
The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (DAO), in collaboration with Uptrust, will develop and implement the Advanced Mobile Technology to Enhance Victim Services (AMTEVS) project through a $750,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582). Over three years, the DAO and Uptrust will customize a smartphone mobile application and two-way text messaging platform to improve...
This $662,034 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) supports a deep phenotyping study of dyslexia. The study aims to characterize the role of visual processing and executive functions in reading difficulties, beyond just phonological awareness. The award supports the development of an open-source online assessment platform, as well as a...
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs has awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Program (CFDA 19.029) to Health Development Consultancy Services (Hedecs) in Cameroon. The purpose of this award is to enhance HIV service delivery and outcomes for key populations in Cameroon. The project aims to identify and implement data-driven solutions to overcome barriers and ensure that key population beneficiaries...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to visualize the mechanisms at the intersection of chromatin, transcription, and epigenetics. The $1,525,500 award to Harvard Medical School aims to develop a combinatorial biochemical and structural approach called "Visual Biochemistry" that uses a fully reconstituted chromatin transcription system and time-resolved single-particle...
This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program aims to address health disparities in the care of patients with Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (PACS) in rural northern New England. The project, titled "LONG COVID HEALTH LITERACY PROJECT: BRINGING HEALTH INFORMATION TO PATIENTS AND PROVIDERS WITH HEALTH DISPARITIES IN RURAL NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND," will develop useful,...
This Project Grant award of $518,754 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports the development of a bioadhesive vaginal film that can provide extended release of contraceptive and antiviral monoclonal antibodies. The goal is to create a versatile, low-cost multipurpose technology (MPT) vaginal film that can deliver highly potent contraceptive, anti-HIV, and anti-HSV...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $275,112 to the University of Pittsburgh for the project "Bayesian Inference of Whole-Brain Directed Networks using Neuroimaging Data." The project will develop new statistical models and computationally efficient algorithms to analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to better...