Project Grant HC080498018

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 Orygyn Medical Devices, LLC received a $613,556 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026. The award funds Phase I development of the FertChx Tubal Selective Delivery System (TSDS), a novel nonsurgical transcervical medical device designed to evaluate fallopian tube patency (openness)...

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

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Johns Hopkins University received a $1.31 million Cooperative Agreement from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) for the ASTRO (Adjuvant Steroid Injection Outcomes in Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis) trial. Awarded September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2026, this multicenter randomized controlled trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of serial...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded a $534,761 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) for the development of magnetoelastic vascular grafts (MVGs). The project, which commenced September 1, 2025, and will conclude June 30, 2029, aims to create an innovative vascular graft platform that simultaneously restores blood flow while enabling wireless,...

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...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded $467,542 to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) on August 15, 2025. This project grant, which extends through July 31, 2027, funds the development of a deep learning-based diagnostic tool for evaluating Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS), a serious obstetric condition characterized by...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) a Cooperative Agreement totaling $808,070 under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030. MGH will develop and deliver a comprehensive head-neck radiofrequency (RF) coil system optimized for ultra-high field (7 Tesla)...

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,...

This $1,199,991 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to develop novel technologies for real-time assessment of blood clot properties to improve stroke treatment. The key products and services under this grant include: Integration of a sub-millimeter Raman fiber probe into a catheter for intravascular, in-vivo measurement of clot chemical composition. Training of a convolutional neural network to...