Project Grant R01EB038720
- This 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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.865) provides $313,180.00 to Amahealth LLC to develop an AI-powered method for accurately predicting the onset of labor in pregnant women. The 8-month project aims to enhance the team's existing work by using deep learning on maternal physiological data from wearable sensors to...
- The University of California, Irvine was awarded a $392,500 Project Grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research) to develop the Maternal Obstetric Monitoring System (MOMS), a wearable device for early detection of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). The project aims to design and validate an alpha prototype sensor that integrates a MEMS-based blood pressure sensor and a continuous signal integration (CSI) sensor, as well as determine design...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has awarded a $423,985 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Illinois to develop a novel non-invasive monitoring system for detecting placental dysfunction and associated pregnancy complications. The funding will support research to utilize extracellular vesicles (EVs) circulating in maternal blood as biomarkers, using a "target recycling...
- This $184,880 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), supports the development of an innovative strategy to evaluate women presenting with non-specific symptoms of ectopic pregnancy. The project aims to leverage point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) devices, novel ultrasound collection procedures, and deep learning artificial...
- This $768,122 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences will support the development of statistical software to predict adverse medical events in preterm infants using multi-sensor streaming data. The awardee, William D Shannon Consulting LLC doing business as Biorankings, will develop an algorithm to transform sensor data from neonatal intensive care units into graphical representations of associations. Decision rules from statistical process control will then...
- This Project Grant award of $999,593.00 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), aims to improve understanding of oxytocin receptor (OXTR) function and dynamics. The key objectives are to quantitatively define the trafficking of the OXTR in uterine smooth muscle (myometrial) cells, including membrane insertion, internalization, and recycling. This...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $624,998 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to Giner Inc. of Auburndale, Massachusetts. The award will fund the development and validation of an electrochemical assay and point-of-care instrument for highly sensitive, near-real-time perinatal monitoring of oxytocin levels. Oxytocin is a critical neuropeptide hormone for facilitating childbirth and...
- This federal 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), provides $294,886 to Thormed Innovation LLC to develop a wearable, wireless ultrasound bladder monitoring system. The goal is to create a reusable, non-invasive device that can accurately measure urine output, reducing the need for invasive urinary catheters which are...
- This federal 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) provides $558,630 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to elucidate the contribution of microvascular remodeling to cervical softening during pregnancy using quantitative ultrasound. The award, spanning from August 2025 to April 2030, aims to develop a novel microvascular ultrasound imaging method, named...
- This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $658,761.00, was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.865). The project aims to develop a deep learning model that can improve the interpretation of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) data to better predict fetal acidemia and reduce unnecessary obstetric interventions. The...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $387,078 Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to The Washington University in Missouri. This award, with a performance period from August 1, 2025 to April 30, 2029, aims to develop a wearable, AI-integrated, multimodal uterine monitoring system. The system will combine electrical and mechanical signal analysis to offer a more comprehensive understanding of uterine activity during pregnancy and labor, with the goal of improving early detection of preterm birth risk. Key innovations include a soft, stretchable sensor to capture both uterine electrical and mechanical data, and a wireless, motion-artifact-tolerant data acquisition platform with embedded machine learning algorithms. The system will be validated against clinical tools and further enhanced with AI-based predictive analytics for labor risk stratification and adverse outcome detection.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $150.0k | 9/18/25 | ||
| Not listed | $237.1k | 7/28/25 |