Project Grant 00E02843

Federal Grant Award Summary Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. received a $1.51 million Project Grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), awarded on September 25, 2025, with completion targeted for June 30, 2027. The grant funds research to identify causal mechanisms linking metabolites to lung function in childhood asthma through family-based association studies. The project will examine pleiotropic...

This $136,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 will support the Mobile Care Foundation's (MCF) efforts to provide home environment assessments and air quality monitoring to asthma and allergy patients in underserved areas of Chicago and its southern suburbs. Funded through EPA's $100K-or-less Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, MCF will sustain and expand its pilot program pairing virtual home assessments with air allergen sensors. Outputs will...

Federal Project Grant Summary The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a Project Grant of $233,250 (Award Date: September 15, 2025; Completion Date: August 31, 2028) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to conduct a pilot study investigating the use of anakinra, an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), as an early intervention treatment for moderate asthma exacerbations. The research aims to...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded a $135,000 Project Grant to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute on July 16, 2025, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837). The award funds a five-year research initiative through June 30, 2030, investigating air pollution sensitivity in pediatric asthma patients. Under the direction of Dr. Jelte Kelchtermans, the project will deliver predictive models and...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Inc. under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). The grant will fund the creation of a community-based network of neighborhood-level air sensor stations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2026. Children's Hospital will install PurpleAir and portable...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) was awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of the Administrator under the Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks program (CFDA 66.609) effective October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2024. Under this award, UMMC will evaluate indoor air quality at three Early Head Start childcare centers in central Mississippi serving children ages six weeks to three years from low-income...

Summary: University of Michigan Pediatric Pulmonary Center The University of Michigan received a $680,000 Project Grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) under the Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) program (CFDA 93.110), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030. The award supports the establishment of the University of Michigan Pediatric Pulmonary Center (UMPPC), which will develop an interprofessional training infrastructure for healthcare...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded a $176,220 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin–Madison on August 15, 2025, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to support a career development research initiative investigating gene-by-air pollution interactions in preschool-onset childhood asthma. The award, which extends through May 31, 2030, funds a comprehensive research program designed to identify genetic and...

This $110,482 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 supports the Hawaii Department of Health in conducting asbestos inspections at K-12 schools statewide. Funded under the Toxic Substances Compliance Monitoring Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.701), the department will inspect charter, public, private, and religious schools from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 to ensure compliance with asbestos regulations. The inspections advance objectives of the EPA...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation awarded a $2,171,256 Project Grant under the Wildfire Smoke Preparedness in Community Buildings Grant Program (CFDA 66.044) to Arizona State University to enhance community resilience against wildfire smoke hazards in Arizona. The three-year project engages diverse communities to develop solutions for managing indoor air pollution during wildfires, including: 1) developing interactive training materials in English and...