Total Healthworks, Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop cloud-based digital treatments and remote patient monitoring tools from March 1, 2021 to August 31, 2021. The Engineering program aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovative engineering research and education. This award specifically supports...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $550,781 Project Grant to the University of Southern California under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to advance disease modeling for healthcare decision making from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2028. The award will support developing a unified theoretical framework to incorporate individual-level disease simulations and compartmental models, with the goal of optimizing these approaches for single and repeated decision contexts...
This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) aims to develop and implement a novel testing platform to evaluate the accuracy of wearable photoplethysmography-based blood pressure monitoring devices. The University of Maryland, College Park will construct a bench flow phantom that simulates physiologically relevant blood pressure, blood flow, anatomical, and optical...
Innovision LLC received a $255,735 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on January 15, 2022 to complete work by September 30, 2022. The award was made under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a patient digital twin and performance capture system for scoliosis physiotherapy. The system will utilize integrated digital environments, parametric musculoskeletal models, and dynamic avatars to simulate human-robot interaction for scoliosis treatment. Such...
This $1.2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at Stanford University from September 2022 to August 2026 to develop digital tools and algorithms to improve diabetes care delivery and health equity. Specifically, the university will leverage sensor data and machine learning techniques to better understand patient types and needs, allocate limited provider resources efficiently, and design interpretable treatment...
This $238,884 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to assess the efficacy of digital health technologies in low-resource settings. The 2-year project, running from April 2025 to March 2027, examines how digital health services impact treatment experiences, communication strategies, and perceptions of effectiveness for both patients and providers in a rural, low-resourced area....
This $347,386 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel wearable device to enable continuous, cuffless, and convenient blood pressure (BP) monitoring. The goal is to create an accurate, inexpensive, easy-to-use technology to help manage hypertension, a major public health issue affecting 45% of US adults and a leading risk factor for heart failure. The key product being developed is a wearable watch that...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will fund the development of advanced computational methods to create high-fidelity, fast-running digital twins of patient hearts and cardiovascular medical devices. The project aims to deliver: 1) novel machine learning algorithms for accurate digital twin geometry reconstruction from 3D medical images, 2) an efficient inverse method to identify in vivo...
Just Health Care LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation on March 1, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2021. The grant was provided under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the company's SBIR Phase I project titled "Measuring and Mapping Pain Intensity onto a 3D Image of the Human Body." The goal of the project is to develop a new method for quantifying pain levels and visualizing pain...
Intelligent Medicine Inc. received a $275,842 National Science Foundation Project Grant to develop a cloud-based simulation platform for modeling airborne infectious disease spread. Funded through NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), the project advances a hybrid computational approach utilizing multi-scale fluid analysis to enable faster-than-real-time simulation of viral particle dispersion and surface contamination in indoor environments. This will allow...