This federal Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund research to understand how language experience shapes the development of the brain's language network. The $149,804 award, granted on Apr 1, 2025, will support a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conduct functional neuroimaging...
The federal Project Grant award R00HD110605, in the amount of $600,914.01, was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award will fund a research project titled "Neonatal Stress in Very Preterm Infants: Longitudinal Effects on Epigenetics and Neurodevelopment" at the University of Iowa. The project aims to investigate the...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $431,750 to a collaborative research partnership between Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences. The funding will support a 2-year investigation into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying heterogeneity in social behavior development among young...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, supports a mixed-methods longitudinal study titled "Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Incarceration and Infant and Toddler Health and Development". The $158,216 award will fund research to analyze data from the "Birth Beyond Bars" study, examining the impact of prenatal exposure...
This Project Grant awarded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to identify optimal electrophysiological markers for predicting developmental outcomes in infants. The $147,037 award to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute will fund a study examining the similarity between resting-state and auditory...
This $133,401 Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), seeks to develop computational models that can identify the sequence of changes cells undergo during differentiation and maturation. The goal is to compare changes in gene expression and chromatin accessibility to understand how these modalities coordinate to drive cellular...
This Project Grant award, valued at $235,500.00, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The funding supports a research project to characterize the emotional environment of infants from 6 to 17 months of age. The key objectives are to describe infants' exposure to emotion information, including facial expressions and emotion language used by caregivers, and...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $473,906 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (dba University of Colorado-Denver) to conduct research on osseoperception, proprioception, and postural control in individuals with osseointegrated prostheses. The study aims to test the impact of prosthesis...
This Project Grant award of $364,324 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports research to understand the role of retrotransposable elements (RTEs) in neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental disorders. The key objectives are to: 1) Test the impact of RTE expression and mobilization on brain development in Drosophila and cerebral organoids, using nucleoside reverse...
This $131,333 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to investigate the emotional and biobehavioral mechanisms underlying parent-infant emotional synchrony. The overarching goal is to uncover the origins of early dyadic interactions and their impact on later child socioemotional functioning, with the aim of developing targeted...