Project Grant 80NSSC24K0444

This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Federal Grant Program CFDA 93.867 Vision Research, will provide $1,312,500.00 over the period of September 1, 2024 to April 30, 2029 to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). The goal of this project is to support the development of enhanced Phecodes (PHEX) to improve the identification and analysis of common and rare eye phenotypes within diverse biobanks. Key objectives include: Comparing the resolution and...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a 5-year, $1,584,006 Cooperative Agreement titled "Promoting Health Aging through Semantic Enrichment of Solitude Research (PHASES)" to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY). The project aims to bridge the gap between the research literatures on solitude and gerotranscendence in order to deepen understanding of how solitude can promote healthy aging. Key products and services to be delivered include:...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), provides funding of $510,689 to Georgia TECH Research Corp to conduct research on the neural mechanisms underlying spatial attention and sensory perception. The key objectives are to: 1) Define the functional organization and retinotopic precision of top-down feedback circuitry from the anterior cingulate cortex to primary and higher visual cortical areas, and 2)...

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) provides $322,000.00 to Case Western Reserve University to perform the following: Analyze electroencephalographic (EEG) and plasma Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarker data collected during a previous clinical trial studying the effects of the drug memantine on adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome. The analysis will examine the...

This $694,434 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director, under CFDA 93.310 Trans-NIH Research Support, will fund the development and testing of an adaptive intervention called EXPO (Executive Function Play Opportunities) for improving executive function in young children with Down syndrome. The project aims to refine and evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of EXPO, a 12-week caregiver-mediated intervention tailored to...

This $370,716 Project Grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (CFDA 93.172 - Human Genome Research) supports the development of an implementation guide to facilitate the integration of population-wide genomic screening (PGS) programs across diverse settings. The "Facilitating the Implementation of Population-Wide Genomic Screening Across Diverse Populations and Settings (FOCUS)" project aims to: Conduct a qualitative needs assessment of 10 existing PGS programs to...

This $812,810 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) supports research at Emory University to generate highly differentiated natural killer (NK) cells and evaluate their synergistic effects with broadly neutralizing antibodies in reducing the SIV reservoir and establishing viral control in the absence of antiretroviral therapy (ART). The key objectives are to: 1) define...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $348,190 to Vanderbilt University over a three-year period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The project, titled "GEOPACHA 2.0: LARGE-SCALE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGERY SURVEY THROUGH HUMAN-MACHINE TEAMING," will revise Vanderbilt's existing web application "GEOPACHA: Geospatial Platform for Andean Culture, History, and Archaeology" to enable...

This Project Grant award for $200,000.00 from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) will support a 3-year formative evaluation and evaluability assessment of the Atlanta Regional Commission's Behavioral Health Coaching program. The project aims to develop a blueprint for a rigorous evaluation of the program model, which provides housing stabilization and independent living support to adults with disabilities and behavioral health...

This $582,959 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) aims to integrate a "Universal Test-and-Connect" (UTC) strategy for HIV prevention and treatment services into two high-volume emergency department (ED) settings in Cape Town, South Africa. The 3-year project, running from September 2024 to September 2027, has three key objectives: Integrate HIV assessment into...