Project Grant K23HD114877
- This Project Grant award of $208,888.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) supports research to develop computer vision techniques for identifying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) motor deficits in infants. The Washington University project aims to leverage deep learning and computational ethology to automatically extract and analyze kinematic data from video assessments of infant behavior, with the goal of creating objective, scalable...
- This $778,398 National Institute of Mental Health project grant will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to test the accuracy of eye tracking as an early screening tool for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the general pediatric population. The research aims to screen approximately 8,000 toddlers ages 12-24 months attending well-baby checkups over the five-year period from May 2023 to March 2028. Researchers will use eye tracking technology to measure social attention...
- This $2,308,368 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to investigate the relationship between visual attention, multimodal communication cues, and expressive language development in typically developing children and those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research, led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will leverage existing datasets and conduct new...
- This federal Project Grant award of $120,000.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Maternal and Child Health Bureau under the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (CFDA 93.877) program, will support a collaborative research project between an early-stage and a senior investigator. The goal of the study is to examine the development of challenging and adaptive social behaviors from early childhood through adolescence among children with...
- The federal Project Grant award of $447,625.00 from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports refractive surgery research for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at the Washington University in St. Louis. The grant, awarded on June 1, 2025 with a completion date of May 31, 2028, will fund advanced biomedical research targeting innovative medical solutions and healthcare transformation for military service members and the broader public. The...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) to the University of Florida supports research to assess the development and predictive value of infant visual function using a battery of tasks and machine learning techniques. The $479,417 award will fund a longitudinal study examining the relationship between measures of infant visuocortical function and subsequent cognitive performance over a 5-year period from August 2025 to July 2030. The...
- This $431,750 Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will support research to examine the neurobiological mechanisms that drive heterogeneity in social behavior across child development. The project will use translational neuroscience approaches, including eye-tracking and conditioned place preference techniques, to quantify children's attention to and...
- This federal Project Grant award of $494,418.00 from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) will support research to investigate the role of the visual environment in the development of myopia, or nearsightedness. The key objectives are: Determine the anti-myopia effectiveness of different real-world visual scenes to understand how the visual environment impacts eye growth and refractive development. Develop improved "repeated low-level red light" therapies that...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is supporting a $175,017 research project to investigate neural predictors of real-world social attention in autism during naturalistic social interactions. The project aims to develop more ecologically valid measures of social attention in autistic individuals by using ambulatory eye-tracking technology during an interpersonal interaction task. The...
- This federal Project Grant award of $517,600 from the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) supports research to investigate the interaction between visual signals that trigger eye fixation and optokinetic reflex in the retina. The research will be conducted by the Washington University, a leading private research institution, with the goal of better understanding how the visual system processes signals that control eye movement and fixation, which is often...
This federal 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), provides $168,053 to The Washington University to quantify improvements in visual acuity, adaptive behavior, and social responsiveness in children with autism spectrum disorder following refractive eye surgery. The research project aims to further define the role of visual morbidity and autism spectrum disorder phenotype, and to understand the impact of visual development on autism spectrum disorder morbidity guided by functional MRI biomarkers. The research builds on prior pilot results showing gains in visual function and improvements in social responsiveness scores following refractive eye surgery in this population. If the benefits are validated, the findings could help inform guidelines for disseminating pediatric refractive surgery as a potential intervention for improving outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $168.1k | 7/29/25 |