This $1,592,381 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) will create the Urinary Stone Disease Hub (USDHUB), a comprehensive research resource to advance understanding and treatment of urinary stone disease. The grant will establish a research cohort of over 230,000 individuals across the lifespan with urinary stone disease, linking...
The University of Utah was awarded a $167,455 Project Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The 5-year grant, commencing on September 18, 2024, aims to create and pilot a set of surgical decision aids (DAs) to facilitate shared decision-making (SDM) for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with differences of sex development (DSD) and their caregivers. The project's...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $193,652.00, was provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847). The grant supports a 5-year research project led by Dr. Carrie Thiessen at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that aims to assess the impact of cognitive biases on patient and provider willingness to accept imperfect kidneys for transplantation. The...
The U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a Project Grant totaling $731,071 to The Johns Hopkins University on January 17, 2025 under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847). The project aims to address barriers that prevent equitable provision of guideline-recommended diabetes care in the United States. The grant will leverage real-world data on over 17 million people with diabetes from the...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) received a $539,460 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the CFDA 93.847 Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program. The award, which runs from Aug 15, 2024 to Jun 30, 2029, will fund a research project titled "Mapping Neurocognitive Complications of Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) and Potential Risk and Protective Factors."...
This $1,244,042 Project Grant awarded on August 1, 2024 by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research - supports a center to validate mouse models of prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The center will bring together three early-stage investigators with complementary expertise in mouse models, inflammation, and bioinformatics to develop new methods for correlating mouse transcriptomic data...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a Project Grant under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to evaluate an innovative, adaptive mobile phone-delivered intervention tailored to the social contexts of adults living with type 2 diabetes. The $772,848 grant, awarded on July 15, 2024, aims to (1) evaluate the intervention's impact on clinical outcomes...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under CFDA 93.847 Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research, is focused on investigating the neurocognitive effects of type 1 diabetes in young children. The $270,932 award to the Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University Indianapolis, will support a multi-center collaborative study to: 1) better understand the impact of type 1 diabetes...
This $337,284 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) will support the development of a novel "Precision-Cut Bladder Slice" (PCBS) technology at Boston Children's Hospital. The goal is to enable quantitative assessment of bladder smooth muscle contraction, relaxation, and stiffness in both healthy murine and human tissues, while...
This $1,369,405 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of incorporating structured pet fish care into a family-based diabetes self-care routine combined with communication skills training for early adolescents with type 1 diabetes. The pilot randomized...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,057,241 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), aims to conduct a Type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study of the "Hypospadias Hub" intervention. The study, led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will assess the effectiveness of the Hypospadias Hub in improving shared decision-making quality, reducing decisional conflict and regret, and increasing decision-relevant knowledge for parents making decisions about hypospadias treatment. The study will also evaluate barriers and facilitators to future implementation of the intervention. Additionally, Indiana University will oversee coordination of research activities and collect parent data at multiple time points, as well as set up and maintain website tracking for observing participants' use of the Hypospadias Hub.