Project Grant H75DP002296

The National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the federal Cancer Cause and Prevention Research program (CFDA 93.393), awarded a $413,971 Project Grant to Duke University to develop and pilot test a novel nurse navigator-delivered intervention for women experiencing premature or early menopause after cancer treatment. The intervention will integrate personalized menopause education, decision support, skills to improve self-management, and cognitive behavioral techniques to manage menopausal...

This Project Grant award of $313,955 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, supports the development of a specialized risk-stratification platform and tailored diabetes prevention program for postpartum women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The goal is to reduce the progression to type 2 diabetes among this high-risk population, which...

This $275,196 federal Project Grant award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) supports research at the University of Chicago investigating the impact of adolescent reproductive health factors on the risk of cardiometabolic disease in young adult women. The project aims to analyze longitudinal data from the Pittsburgh Girls Study to examine associations between adolescent pubertal development, sexual health, and pregnancy history with...

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $303,916 Project Grant to KDH Research & Communication (KDHRC) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The grant, titled "SUPPLYING USEFUL PERIMENOPAUSE THROUGH POST-MENOPAUSE ONLINE RESOURCES AND TOOLS (SUPPORT): A CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE CHW TRAINING PROGRAM TO SUPPORT MINORITY WOMEN," will fund the development and evaluation of a training program to equip...

The federal Project Grant award of $477,502 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Program (CFDA 93.865) aims to identify drivers of women's sexual and reproductive health (SRH) empowerment, including male influences, and demonstrate how SRH empowerment can reduce unintended pregnancies in Burkina Faso. The project will leverage existing longitudinal data from the Performance Monitoring for Action...

This $880,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will fund a study to examine the effects of daily stress, sleep, and sex hormones on accelerated vascular aging in premenopausal midlife women. The 2-year study, starting November 2024, will investigate how emotional reactivity to daily stressors and sleep variability contribute to vascular dysfunction prior to menopause, and how these factors interact with changes in estradiol levels. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), aims to develop and pilot an electronic health record-based physical activity intervention to prevent progression of postpartum hypertension in women with subclinical blood pressure elevations during pregnancy. The $192,199 grant awarded to Northwestern University will fund a 5-year project focused on (1) identifying factors that influence...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA Program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, provides $684,290 to Weill Medical College of Cornell University to develop risk models for predicting severe maternal morbidity (SMM) using clinical and social determinants of health (SDOH) data. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) link longitudinal electronic health records and claims...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $680,644 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to evaluate the "Healthy Families-PREP" intervention. This intervention aims to promote the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among periconception, pregnant, and postpartum women in rural Uganda to reduce HIV incidence. The 5-year project will first adapt the 3-session...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $298,883 to Iaterion, Inc. to develop a safer menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) formula that can be used long-term to treat protracted menopausal symptoms and prevent chronic diseases like osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. The project aims to create an estradiol/reprogramming ligand combination that can potentially replace the progestin component of current MHT...