Project Grant HC080398118

Federal Grant Award Summary The Hospital For Special Surgery Fund, Inc. (HSS Foundation) received a $719,791 Project Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), awarded June 1, 2026, with a completion date of May 30, 2031. The research initiative focuses on developing and validating Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) as a biomarker to assess physeal (growth plate) activity...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston received a $620,820 Project Grant awarded August 1, 2025, by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). This five-year award, concluding July 31, 2030, supports a single-arm Phase III clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of cryopreserved human umbilical cord (HUC) grafts as meningeal patches in...

This $437,461 federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), funded under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), supports the development of a novel stabilization catheter device for His pacing lead implantation. The goal is to improve the accuracy and ease of His bundle pacing, an emerging alternative cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) for heart failure patients. The project aims to refine a deployable suction-tipped lead...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center received a $467,542 project grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), awarded August 15, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2027. The award supports development of a fully automated, open-source computational pipeline utilizing deep learning algorithms and regional radiomics...

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded UCLA a $534,761 Project Grant under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to develop magnetoelastic vascular grafts (MVGs) as an innovative platform technology for continuous stenosis monitoring. The MVG research aims to address a critical clinical need, as approximately 40% of the 3 million vascular grafts implanted annually experience reduced patency within two years. The project, running from September 1,...

This $717,712 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development and evaluation of a knowledge-enhanced and interpretable radiology report generation framework using longitudinal, multimodal electronic health record data and domain knowledge. The awardee, Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University, will build a...

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded a $399,111 Project Grant under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The grant aims to increase postpartum primary care engagement, quality, and experience by strengthening coordination between obstetric and primary care providers. The intervention includes default primary care visit scheduling,...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The Johns Hopkins University received a $3.94 million Cooperative Agreement from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), awarded September 15, 2025, with completion expected August 31, 2026. This award funds the ASTRO (Adjuvant Steroid Injection Outcomes in Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis) trial, a multicenter, prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled...

This $159,255 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to employ a mixed-methods approach to identify social risk factors associated with variation in pre- and post-operative expenditures and outcomes for episodes of renal colic, a common and costly surgical condition. The award to the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Federal Grant Award Summary Georgia TECH Research Corp received a $418,284 Project Grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286). The award, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027, funds research and development of an ion-selective, sensor-integrated central venous catheter (CVC) system for real-time monitoring and automated correction of...