Project Grant HT94252410903

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund a collaborative research project between the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Delaware. The project aims to investigate the potential benefits of passive ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) with customized and biomimetic stiffness profiles for improving gait mechanics and mobility in healthy individuals and those post-stroke. The $392,482 award, with a performance...

This federal 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, provides $185,713 to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab) to study neuromodulatory strategies targeting cortical and spinal pathways to facilitate paretic leg motor control during walking in individuals with stroke. The key objectives are...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $346,369 will fund the development of a novel gait training method for individuals after stroke from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding supports Syracuse University under the NSF Engineering Directorate's program to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation. Specifically, the grant will advance knowledge on enhancing muscle power and propulsion, a key barrier to improved walking after stroke. The...

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, will conduct the "POWER FORWARD STUDY: A CROSS-SECTOR, MULTISITE CLINICAL TRIAL OF A POWERED KNEE-ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS" project under a $1.679 million project grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command. The grant was awarded on August 1, 2022 and will support project activities through July 31, 2026. The project aims to transform health care for service members and the public through...

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), aims to quantify balance control mechanisms during walking in individuals with chronic stroke. The $137,859 award, granted on June 12, 2025, will fund research to 1) characterize balance control mechanisms during unconstrained and complex walking tasks in those with and without chronic...

This Project Grant award of $220,947.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports fundamental research to develop an intelligent wearable system that can assess patient motivation, adapt the challenge level of therapeutic activities, and cue stroke survivors to engage in prescribed exercises. The goal is to address the problem of "learned non-use", where stroke survivors refrain from using their impaired limbs despite retaining the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $465,009 CAREER grant to the University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research to develop a novel neuromechanical simulation framework for improving gait rehabilitation design and prescription. The project aims to model how patients adapt to error-augmentation based gait training interventions that challenge and retrain walking balance control. The research activities include capturing muscle activity and kinematics data from...

This $720,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) will develop a novel robotic ankle-foot orthosis (exoskeleton) system to assist older adults' mobility and gait ability in real-world ambulation. The project at North Carolina State University aims to design and fabricate a compact, lightweight robotic ankle-foot orthosis to provide powered assistance and enhance ankle...

This $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund the development of appropriate rehabilitation technology for stroke survivors through passive tactile stimulation. The Leland Stanford Junior University will lead an interdisciplinary team including universities, hospitals, and community organizations to finalize the team composition, generate use cases, and develop a comprehensive research plan including initial...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), is funding a study to evaluate the effects of high-intensity physical exercise training on language and cognitive recovery in individuals with post-stroke aphasia. The $702,315 award, effective May 15, 2025 through April 30, 2030, will support the recruitment of 110 aphasia patients to compare...