This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $231,000 to The Leland Stanford Junior University from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027. The project aims to identify and characterize "mortality hotspots" - regions in low- and middle-income countries where child or adult mortality rates remain exceptionally high - using spatial...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $642,859 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Leland Stanford Junior University. The grant, with a period of performance from Jul 1, 2025 to Apr 30, 2030, aims to validate algorithmic approaches to detect pediatric prescribing errors at scale, validate the use of electronic health record (EHR) metadata to identify individual, team, and system...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,936,773 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to conduct research on the social determinants of adolescent and young adult mortality in the United States. The project aims to create a new database linking administrative birth and death records for 10-25 year olds with demographic,...
This $537,730 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), aims to develop advanced in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies for studying infant brain development. The primary objectives are to achieve motion-robust, high-resolution (600mm isotropic) whole-brain quantitative MRI (qMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI) within clinically feasible scan...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,991,974 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) effective August 1, 2024 through April 30, 2029. The grant will support the development of a novel "live embryo imaging" method for aneuploidy detection, a biopsy-free approach to preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) that can...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $149,804 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The research project aims to understand how language experience shapes language development across childhood by comparing neural representations in the human brain to those of large language models (LLMs) trained on...
This Project Grant award, totaling $684,290, was provided 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 aims to leverage clinical and social determinants of health (SDOH) data to develop risk models for predicting severe maternal morbidity (SMM). The key products and services to be delivered include: Linking longitudinal electronic health records and claims data to...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $353,649 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of California, Berkeley. The grant, which runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026, will fund research to evaluate the long-term impacts of early water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and nutrition interventions on health and development outcomes for children and adolescents living in poverty...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,463,500 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct a randomized controlled trial of an agricultural livelihood intervention to improve maternal and newborn health and nutrition in Kenya. The 5-year project, which began on January 17, 2025, aims to determine the effectiveness of...
This $108,512 federal Project Grant awarded on November 22, 2025 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, supports a research project titled "Leveraging Enhanced Phenotyping and Causal Inference Approaches to Investigate the Effect of Maternal Medication Exposures on Child Outcomes". The primary objectives are to build a registry of mother-child pairs with high-quality...