Project Grant R01HD112416
- This federal Project Grant award of $426,234, 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), aims to refine and test a novel virtual reality (VR) parent training tool for caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who exhibit severe destructive behavior. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Developing a customizable, in-home VR training...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839) will evaluate a virtual reality-enhanced version of an evidence-based aggression and bullying prevention program called PRAISE (Preventing Aggression in Schools Everyday) for 3rd-5th grade students and their teachers. The $2,335,668 award to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute will fund a cluster-randomized controlled trial to compare the...
- This Project Grant award, titled "The Virtual Interrogation Subjective Experience (VISE) Project: Using Virtual Reality to Measure Perceptions of Police Interviews," was provided by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The $315,956 grant was awarded to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on May 1, 2025, with a planned completion date of April 30, 2028. The project aims to use virtual reality (VR) technology to study...
- This federal Project Grant award, titled "ENHANCING AN EXISTING PREVENTION STRATEGY TO REDUCE INTENTIONAL FIREARM INJURIES AMONG HIGH-RISK YOUTH", is provided by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control under the Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs (CFDA 93.136) federal grant program. The $148,060 award to Virginia Commonwealth University will fund a 3-year project to develop and evaluate an enhanced firearm injury prevention...
- This $885,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) will establish the Virginia Center for Hospital-Based Violence Intervention (the Center) as a national center of excellence for Virginia health systems. The Center will coordinate efforts between hospitals, community stakeholders, and policy leaders to address violence and provide victim support services in targeted communities. Key activities include forming an...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is for a research project focused on developing a virtual reality (VR) mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) to decrease impulsive aggressive behavior in patients with schizophrenia. The $656,078 award, with a project period from July 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027, will be used to determine the optimal dosing paradigm for increased activation in the dorsomedial...
- This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617), provides $1,250,000.00 to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) to create a virtual reality-based training platform for cybersecurity incident response. The key activities include designing and developing a prototype virtual reality training environment that can simulate cyber-attacks and...
- This $1,195,956 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports the development and translation of a virtual reality-based military operational neuropsychological assessment tool. The funding will enable the University of Arizona, as the prime awardee, to create and validate a model for this innovative virtual reality assessment system. The anticipated completion date for this 3-year effort is September 29,...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.395 - Cancer Treatment Research) provides $403,383 to the Medstar Health Research Institute Inc. to develop and pilot test a new virtual reality (VR)-based therapy that integrates cognitive behavioral strategies to help manage chronic cancer pain. The research aims to create an evidence-based, patient-centered VR intervention that can serve as a non-pharmacologic complement to opioid therapies for cancer patients...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,999 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Rhode Island. The grant will fund research to design virtual reality (VR) technologies that enable adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) to independently engage in post-trauma self-regulation. The project aims to: (1) understand how adults with I/DD use VR for self-regulation after trauma, (2)...
This federal 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) will fund the evaluation of a virtual reality (VR) violence prevention program called Elevate VR. The $659,863 award will be used to conduct a randomized controlled trial involving 360 violently injured youth, with the goal of preventing incidents of firearm-related violence through the Elevate VR program. The program engages youth in culturally relevant immersive stories and gameplay while teaching psychoeducational skills, de-escalation training, emotion regulation, trauma management, and gun safety awareness. The award has an effective date of August 6, 2025 and a target completion date of July 31, 2030. The grant recipient is Virginia Commonwealth University, a public research university with a robust portfolio of federal contract and grant awards in biomedical research, health technologies, and scientific innovation.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $659.9k | 8/6/25 |