This federal Project Grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), under the Human Genome Research program (CFDA 93.172), provides $460,610 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on reframing the personal and community report-back of consumer product exposures. The key objectives are to: 1) Analyze community experiences in receiving personalized study results among Black and Latina women, and move from a...
This $1,244,042 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), supports a research project to validate and compare mouse models of prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) against human BPH datasets. The project is led by three early-stage investigators (ESIs) and will develop new bioinformatics approaches to correlate mouse transcriptomic data with...
The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (DAO), in collaboration with Uptrust, will develop and implement the Advanced Mobile Technology to Enhance Victim Services (AMTEVS) project through a $750,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582). Over three years, the DAO and Uptrust will customize a smartphone mobile application and two-way text messaging platform to improve...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to visualize the mechanisms at the intersection of chromatin, transcription, and epigenetics. The $1,525,500 award to Harvard Medical School aims to develop a combinatorial biochemical and structural approach called "Visual Biochemistry" that uses a fully reconstituted chromatin transcription system and time-resolved single-particle...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), under the Human Genome Research program (CFDA 93.172), provides $1,310,799 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop tools that leverage pangenomes to improve analysis and visualization of complex genomic regions associated with human traits and diseases. The key products and services to be delivered include: A web-based pangenome browser that integrates existing biobank...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $100,000 supported a conference at the University of Maryland, College Park from September 2022 to February 2023. The goal of the conference was to explore human-centered approaches to developing an ethical framework for integrating considerations and constraints into the design of artificial intelligence solutions from requirements gathering through specification. Specifically, the conference addressed knowledge representation methodologies,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $275,112 to the University of Pittsburgh for the project "Bayesian Inference of Whole-Brain Directed Networks using Neuroimaging Data." The project will develop new statistical models and computationally efficient algorithms to analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to better...
The University of Pittsburgh received a Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), to evaluate the time-dependent glycemic impact of a mobile app intervention called HealthMine. The $594,591 award will support a 90-day micro-randomized trial with 100 adolescents and young adults (ages 16-24) with type 2 diabetes, to determine the effects of...
This three-year $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of California, Irvine to develop new statistical methods and computational tools for analyzing complex, intensive longitudinal biomedical data. Specifically, the grantee will study heterogeneous epigenetic effects of post-traumatic stress disorder using high-dimensional DNA methylation modeling. They will also develop optimal...
This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research investigating lineup construction processes and eyewitness identifications. The grantee, an early career scientist sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will examine how the compositional structure of photo lineups impacts identification accuracy. Three main components are included: similarity judgments to generate multidimensional face...