This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, supports the COACH: Communities Aligned to Reduce Concussion and Head Impact Exposure in Youth Football program. The $1,089,271 award, with a project period from January 1, 2025 to November 30, 2029, aims to develop and evaluate an evidence-based intervention to reduce head impact exposure and concussion risk for youth...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $620,784 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences to conduct research on head impact biomechanics, neurobehavioral health, and community perspectives on safety in youth ice hockey. The primary objectives are to: 1) characterize head impact biomechanics and...
This $117,071 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Duke University on July 1, 2025. The grant supports a longitudinal study investigating the science of risk-taking and decision-making among adolescents and young adults, with a focus on concussion and brain injury risk factors. The research aims to develop a data-driven framework for understanding how young people assess and mitigate risks of brain...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) program (CFDA 93.433) is designed to evaluate the efficacy of a novel rehabilitation intervention called "Tools for Recovery and Clinical Care" (ON-TRACC) for improving quality of life and function for individuals experiencing persistent post-concussive symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury. The $1,499,997 award, with a project period from Sep 1, 2024 to...
This $6,292,954 federal Project Grant award, funded by the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, is supporting research titled "Monitoring and Mitigation of Neurological Injuries to Optimize Resilience After Repetitive Head Impacts (MONITOR RHI)." The primary awardee is the University of Rochester, which is collaborating with several sub-awardees including Boston Children's Hospital, Indiana University, The...
This $1,544,840 Project Grant awarded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) supports research to understand the impact of post-concussive sleep disruption on glymphatic function in collegiate athletes. The study aims to: 1) identify risk factors for post-concussive sleep-wake disturbances, 2) evaluate the combined effects of concussion and sleep disruption on perivascular space burden, and 3) determine the...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research), supports a comprehensive research study titled "Risk and Resilience, Clinical Presentation, and Biomarker Profiles of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Related Dementias: The Diagnose CTE Research Project II". The $6,578,788 award will be used to retain and expand an existing cohort of former football players and controls to examine the clinical features, biomarkers, and...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, will fund research to improve the understanding of traumatic brain injury (TBI) biomechanics. The $559,820 award will enable the University of South Carolina, in collaboration with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, to conduct a multimodal study...
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) will enable research to assess and intervene upon early childhood exposure to violence in pediatric primary care settings. The $115,203 award, effective August 21, 2024 through July 31, 2026, will support the University of Washington in identifying existing practices, facilitators, and barriers to childhood...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Trustees of Boston University is supporting a comprehensive research study on the long-term health consequences of repetitive head impacts (RHI) across the lifespan. The $4,269,339 award, active from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027, is expanding the UNITE Brain Bank - the world's largest RHI and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain tissue repository - to investigate how RHI exposure, particularly...