Project Grant 80NSSC20K1776

Cooperative Agreement Summary The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. received a $177,201 cooperative agreement from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences under the Uniformed Services University Medical Research Projects program (CFDA 12.750), awarded December 1, 2025, with a completion date of November 30, 2026. The award supports the Sleep, Performance, and Cognition Enhancement (SPACE) Program, which focuses on sleep restoration...

Federal Grant Award Summary HMH Hospitals Corporation, doing business as Hackensack University Medical Center, received a $4.36 million Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) effective September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2029. The award funds a clinical trial designed to evaluate the efficacy of Building Emotional Self-Awareness (BESA) teletherapy in improving psychological health outcomes for...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493), awarded a $558,000 Project Grant to The Medical Center of Central Georgia, Inc. (dba Medical Center) on September 30, 2024. The funding will be used to decommission four existing ambulances with over 300,000 miles and replace them with four new 2024 Ford high-top T350 ambulances equipped with Stryker power-loading systems. This will support the Medical Center's Atrium Health...

Federal Grant Award Summary Cedars-Sinai Medical Center received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) for the period May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2030. The project, titled "From H&E to HRD: Linking Morphometry, Clinical, and Molecular Data for Drug Response Prediction," will be conducted at the awardee's West Hollywood, California location. This award supports hypothesis-driven...

Federal Grant Award Summary Vanderbilt University Medical Center received a $3.64 million Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) awarded September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2029. The project, titled "Empowered Relief for Spine Surgery: Improving Outcomes with Innovative Rehabilitation Strategies," focuses on developing and implementing innovative rehabilitation approaches designed to...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research to grow three-dimensional cancer-myeloid organoids on the International Space Station (ISS) in order to better mimic brain tumor formation and study interactions between cancer and immune cells. The $400,000 award, with a project period from September 2024 to August 2027, will first generate "flight-ready" organoid seeds from various cancer and immune...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center received a $761,506 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), awarded on May 15, 2025, with a completion date of May 14, 2028. The grant supports research to identify therapeutically targetable molecules and pathways for treating cystic kidneys in tuberous sclerosis complex. This three-year research initiative leverages UNM...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences awarded a $57.99 million Cooperative Agreement to The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. on July 1, 2025, under the Uniformed Services University Medical Research Projects program (CFDA 12.750). The award supports the Murtha Cancer Center Translational Clinical Research: Applied Proteogenomics Organizational Learning and Outcomes (APOLLO) initiative and...

Federal Grant Award Summary Albert Einstein College of Medicine received a $1.344 million Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) effective May 1, 2025, through April 30, 2029. The award supports research on targeting noncanonical Wnt signaling to prevent Ewing sarcoma metastases utilizing a novel zebrafish model. This research addresses a critical cancer biology challenge relevant to military medical...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center received a $319,800 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), effective November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2028. The award funds research on novel hypoxia-inducible factor 2 (HIF-2) regulators and therapeutic targets for kidney cancer, conducted at the institution's Dallas, Texas campus. This research initiative...