This federal Project Grant award, titled "Evaluating EHR-Based Prediction of Obesity Using WHO Weight Velocity Standards and Peak BMI", is funded 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 $456,914 award, granted on September 1, 2025, supports research by the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio to evaluate the use of electronic health record...
This federal Project Grant award for $732,261 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) supports research to identify central obesity genes and validate their function using in vitro and in vivo models. The project aims to leverage large-scale, multi-ethnic genomic and multi-omic data from nine longitudinal studies in the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program to pinpoint target genes that...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research) provides $766,277 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to optimize dietary adherence in a mobile behavioral weight loss intervention for adults. The project aims to use an innovative factorial trial design to identify intervention components that can directly improve dietary adherence for participants who do not initially respond well to the standard...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) received a $222,750 Project Grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) to develop a clinical decision support questionnaire to identify barriers to blood pressure control. The project aims to address the high rates of uncontrolled hypertension in the U.S., which is a leading cause of morbidity, mortality, and substantial healthcare costs. The award, with a performance period from July...
This federal Project Grant award of $708,678, provided by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research), aims to conduct a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) to reduce food insecurity and improve adherence in patients with hypertension. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Determining the most effective initial food insecurity intervention (resource information or community health worker...
This federal Project Grant award of $130,065 was provided by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.837) to conduct systematic economic analyses on the costs associated with implementing a chronic care model for patients with hypertension. The grant supports a study led by principal investigator Dr. Elaine Khoong and collaborators Dr. Dhruv Kazi, Dr. Lina Tieu, and Dr. Lisa Ochoa-Frongia. The project aims to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) provides $299,996 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop data-driven Restless Multi-Armed Bandit (RMAB) techniques to optimize public health intervention strategies for diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, and maternal health in the U.S. healthcare system. The award period runs from September 15, 2025 to June 30, 2029. The project aims to...
The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute awarded $2,350,623 under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota on May 1, 2021 for a project concluding on April 30, 2022. The project aims to reduce childhood obesity through an individual randomized controlled trial testing combinations of ecological momentary intervention, home visiting, and video feedback delivered to 510 low-income, racially...
This Project Grant award of $784,362.00, provided by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research) to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., will support research investigating the role of body composition, coronary microvascular dysfunction, and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in characterizing adverse cardiometabolic disease phenotypes. The research aims to leverage novel imaging technologies to identify mechanisms of...
The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has awarded a $841,555 Cooperative Agreement under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. The "ENHANCE" project aims to integrate a nutrition enhancement within established, evidence-based, federally funded home visiting programs to promote healthier eating patterns and food access for families from lower incomes and underserved communities. The multi-level intervention will be...
This $347,527.92 Project Grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the Department of Health and Human Services will fund the development of a clinical decision support tool to maximize outcomes for obesity treatment in primary care. The grant recipient, Dr. Hallie Espe-Huynh of The Miriam Hospital, will work with stakeholders to design a machine learning model within a prototype clinical decision support system. The tool aims to predict early risk of nonresponse to online obesity interventions, alert clinicians, and enable evidence-based rescue interventions. From August 1, 2021 to February 26, 2022, Dr. Espe-Huynh will integrate predictive analytics into a user-tested decision support prototype to guide primary care providers in facilitating improved treatment response. If successful, the work will result in a practice-ready tool to enhance online obesity care, addressing an important need within the National Institutes of Health's Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837).