This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $178,000 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 will support research conducted by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to create a framework for early-life phenotyping of very preterm infants. The goal is to categorize infants into distinct phenotypes based on perinatal variables, and then...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant totaling $349,375 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The goal of this 5-year grant, awarded on August 12, 2024, is to develop a targeted, placenta-tropic lipid nanoparticle (LNP) platform for the delivery of therapeutic mRNA...
This $160,052 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 support research to examine how two hospital-level factors, financial health and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) strain, influence neonatal outcomes and disparities.
The grantee, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), will conduct a retrospective study to: 1) define the...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has awarded a $272,700 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute Division, doing business as Kaiser Permanente, to conduct research on neighborhood- and individual-level factors associated with pregnancy glycemia levels and childhood obesity risk.
The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year...
This federal Project Grant award of $293,756 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports research to enhance understanding of placental dysfunction in common obstetric disorders. The primary awardee, the Institute for Systems Biology, will conduct integrated multi-omic analysis to identify molecular networks associated with placental physiology and dysfunction in disorders like...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports a $652,222 research project titled "Impaired Fecundity and Future Health: A Prospective Investigation of Pregnancy Planners in North America and Denmark." The goal is to examine the relationship between fertility status and subsequent health outcomes, with a focus on cardiometabolic...
This $325,000 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 support research on the effects of government-led cash transfer programs on health outcomes among women and young children in low- and middle-income countries.
The research will use data from 37 low- and middle-income countries to generate longitudinal mortality datasets covering about 7...
This federal Project Grant award, 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), aims to investigate the impact of obesity and adiposity on the human endometrium. The $195,000 award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026, will support three key research activities:
Single-nucleus RNA sequencing to comprehensively understand how pathologic adiposity...
This 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), provides $456,251 to Colorado State University to conduct research on the mechanisms by which maternal obesity and inflammation contribute to pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia.
The overarching goal is to test the hypothesis that pro-inflammatory factors produced by maternal adipose tissue reduce...
This $176,255 federal Project Grant award 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 goal of the project is to assess how social stressors over the maternal life course contribute to racial inequities in maternal and infant health outcomes in the United States.
The research team at the University of Nevada, Reno will conduct secondary analyses of longitudinal...