Project Grant 1648034

This $512,256 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse will support Health Outcomes Inc. doing business as Telesage to develop a Primary Care-SUD Intake System (P-SUD-IS). The P-SUD-IS aims to address underdiagnosis of substance use disorders (SUDs) by streamlining the SUD assessment process for primary care clinicians. Telesage will create a HIPAA-compliant, automated, cloud-based system to facilitate completion of biopsychosocial assessments for...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $670,000 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to develop a data-driven early warning system framework for detecting and responding to emerging epidemics of illicit substance use. The project aims to (1) create predictive models to identify high-risk communities and emerging threats, (2) uncover causal factors driving these substance use patterns, (3) optimize intervention...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), is supporting the development of a software-based medical device (SAMD) for detecting opioid use through voice analysis. The $800,000 award to Tenvos Inc., a minority-owned and woman-owned technology company, aims to advance the company's AI-driven solution that can enable patients to remotely test for opioid use and securely share results with...

This Project Grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, provides $738,086 to Brown University under the Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to evaluate a technology-assisted parenting intervention for adolescents in residential substance use treatment. Specifically, the funding supports a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of Parent SMART, a mobile app and telehealth coaching program that...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Rescue Biomedical, LLC received a $799,430 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) for the period August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026. The project focuses on developing and commercializing the Automatic Detection Device (AD2), a user-centric wearable detection module designed to identify opioid-induced respiratory depression. This...

This $394,604 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), supports research at Brown University to develop and evaluate a virtual reality (VR) intervention tool designed to enhance cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD). The project, which commenced on September 25, 2025, and concludes on August 31, 2028, addresses a critical treatment gap: only approximately...

This $275,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program supports the development of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based mobile app technology called VoxCare. The goal of this project is to create a system that can assess drug use or alcohol intoxication in youth based on analyzing voice signals. The technology aims to leverage unique voice signal characteristics...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc., New York State Psychiatric Institute, received a $1.09M Project Grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) beginning March 1, 2026, with a completion date of January 31, 2031. The award funds the development and evaluation of E-CONNECTYA, a tailored system-level intervention designed to improve identification of overdose risk, suicide risk, and...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded $413,496 through its Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York to conduct research on enhancing alcohol use disorder (AUD) recovery through systematic assessment of psychological well-being (PWB) in daily life. The two-year project, initiated September 20, 2025 and concluding August 31, 2027, addresses a critical gap in AUD treatment...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $823,809 to the University of Pittsburgh to develop and validate a suite of multidimensional measures of access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) across U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The primary objectives are to: Create a Small Area Multidimensional MOUD Access (SAMMA) measure suite using public data sources. Validate and...