Project Grant K08EB039096
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Johns Hopkins University received a $620,104 Project Grant award effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, 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 project, titled "Catalyzing Visual-Haptic Acuity for Tissue Handling Mastery in Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery," will develop and validate an...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) a Project Grant totaling $206,250 on June 1, 2026, under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286). The project, titled "Integrated Mechano-Arthroscope for Minimally Invasive Assessment of Joint Pathologies," aims to develop and validate a novel diagnostic device that...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $301,516 Project Grant (CFDA 93.286: Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health) effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2029. The project develops artificial intelligence (AI) models that analyze surgical procedure videos and generate expert-level narrative feedback to surgeons. The deliverables include a unified...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Virginia received a $454,810 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), effective May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2028. This bioethics research initiative examines the ethical implications of enhancement prosthetics technology, specifically addressing scenarios in which advanced bionic limbs may be so functionally and aesthetically superior that...
- Federal Grant Award Summary George Mason University received a $587,450 Project Grant awarded August 1, 2025, through the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286). The project will develop novel artificial muscle-driven robotic eyes that realistically mimic binocular eye movement to advance understanding of human eye biomechanics and oculomotor...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Virginia received a $1,092,610 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), effective March 15, 2026, with completion targeted for February 28, 2030. The award supports development and validation of an Impedance-Activated Recognition, Tracking, and Sorting (IARTS) system designed to enable near-real-time, label-free identification and isolation...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded the University of Maryland Baltimore County a $296,746 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) on September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2029. The project, titled "CyberGut: Cyber-Physical System for Closed-Loop Control of Gastric Motility," develops an intelligent adaptive...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Virginia received a $415,171 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), effective March 15, 2026, with completion targeted for February 28, 2031. The award supports fundamental research into cell-instructive viscoelastic hydrogels designed to advance understanding of mechanobiology—specifically how tissue mechanics regulate cellular...
- Summary of Federal Project Grant Award Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. received a $1.554 million Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to develop a trackerless surgical navigation system for minimally invasive liver surgery. The award, dated August 1, 2025, with performance extending through July 31, 2029, funds the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a $428,578 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) 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, supports research into focused ultrasound (FUS) therapies for non-invasive treatment of...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded the University of Virginia a Project Grant totaling $190,847 under CFDA 93.286 (Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health), effective June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2030. This research initiative, led by Dr. Thomas Shin at UVA Health, develops force-based metrics and haptic feedback systems to standardize robotic paraesophageal hernia repair (PEHR) procedures. The project will deliver objective performance indicators (OPIs) for complex surgical procedures by integrating force-sensing technology and haptic feedback into robotic surgical platforms, addressing the critical limitation of absent tactile feedback in robotic surgery that contributes to high recurrence rates (up to 33% within one year) and other postoperative complications. The grant supports two primary research aims: Aim 1 establishes force-based metrics and introduces a "surgical fingerprint" concept for PEHR using machine learning models, including temporal convolutional networks, to identify critical force thresholds linked to patient outcomes; Aim 2 evaluates the clinical utility of haptic feedback through a prospective trial comparing surgical outcomes with and without haptic-enabled robotic systems. By transforming robotic surgery from a visually guided practice into a data-driven science, this translational research will generate evidence-based intraoperative benchmarks for surgical safety and efficacy, with potential applications across complex surgical procedures beyond PEHR.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $190.8k | 5/22/26 |