This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports research to investigate biobehavioral markers of prenatal resilience associated with positive postpartum maternal mental health and well-being. The $175,647 award to the University of Pittsburgh will fund a 5-year study to examine how positive childhood experiences and prenatal physiological and psychological resilience factors can predict early...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,286,936.00 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to leverage machine learning and publicly available geotagged data to monitor maternal and child health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The project, with a period of performance from August 2024 to April 2029, aims to develop innovative...
This federal Project Grant award of $418,178 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 provide mechanistic insights into the neurobiological mechanisms by which maternal sensitivity is compromised by postpartum depression. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, will use intersectional viral...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $135,268 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to The Leland Stanford Junior University to develop novel approaches for assessing depression and anxiety symptoms among patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes. The key objectives of this 4-year grant (8/1/2024 - 7/31/2028) are to: 1) Leverage large language model algorithms to analyze patient portal messages and identify symptomatic issues and...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $727,080 and awarded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), will support research to investigate the neurogenic mechanisms underlying the relationship between psychosocial stress, postpartum cardiovascular disease, and postpartum depression. The key objectives are to determine if mitochondrial stabilization in the medial prefrontal cortex can prevent stress-induced...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $176,255, was awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant supports research to assess how social contextual stressors over the maternal pre-pregnancy life course contribute to racial inequities in maternal and infant health outcomes in the United States. The key objectives of the 2-year project are to: 1)...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports research on the role of affective information in early word learning. The $146,816 award to The Leland Stanford Junior University, spanning December 2024 to August 2027, aims to characterize how the affective context of caregiver-child interactions, including the impact of caregiver depression,...
This $102,168 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will provide the recipient, an epidemiology PhD student at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with mentored training to become a perinatal epidemiologist with expertise in health policy and health services research. The goal of the proposed research is to rigorously evaluate the...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, aims to determine the role of maternal neuroinflammation in cognitive and psychosocial dysfunction associated with gestational hypoxia, a characteristic of gestational sleep apnea. The $117,226 award, effective from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2027, will support research at the University of North Texas...
This federal Project Grant award of $689,409 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a clinical translational study to determine the role of the microbiota-gut-brain axis (MGBA) in perinatal depression (PND). The study aims to recruit 158 women, primarily Black and Latina, early in pregnancy to assess how attributes of the MGBA, such as production of metabolites...