This federal Project Grant award of $418,178 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 provide mechanistic insights into the neurobiological mechanisms by which maternal sensitivity is compromised by postpartum depression. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, will use intersectional viral...
This Project Grant award of $453,382, 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), will support research to map the developmental trajectory of the oxytocin receptor system and offspring neurobehavior after induced birth with oxytocin. The primary objectives are to: 1) Comprehensively visualize the developing oxytocin receptor-oxytocin system in the postnatal mouse brain...
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 program (CFDA 93.865), will support research into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying maternal behavior in mice. The $1,572,111 award to Baylor College of Medicine aims to elucidate the role of the TRPC5 ion channel in regulating maternal behaviors, such as pup retrieval and nursing, and to assess whether...
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 program (CFDA 93.865), provides $117,226 to the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC) over a 2-year period from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2027. The grant aims to investigate the role of gestational hypoxia, a characteristic of gestational sleep apnea, on maternal...
This $1,918,854 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program supports a multi-site, stepped-wedge randomized rollout trial to study the implementation and effectiveness of a Cesarean section risk calculator in diverse labor units across the United States. The study aims to evaluate the calculator's impact on reducing Cesarean delivery rates and maternal morbidity,...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a 5-year, $1.3M Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of Illinois to conduct a clinical translational study and experimental animal model research aimed at determining the role of the microbiota-gut-brain axis (MGBA) in perinatal depression (PND). The study will recruit 158 racially diverse pregnant women (55% Black, 30% Latina) to longitudinally assess...
This 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) will fund a $157,000 research project titled "Psychobiological Mediators of the Impact of Pregnancy Stress on Maternal Sensitivity" at Michigan State University. The project aims to: 1) Determine the trajectories of maternal mental health symptoms and sex steroid hormones across pregnancy and early...
This Project Grant award of $606,824.23, provided by 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 research on the effects of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement during the COVID-19 public health emergency on postpartum coverage and maternal and infant care after childbirth. The award recipient, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA program 93.865, "Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research," provides $430,031.00 to evaluate the role of DNA methylation changes in very early preterm birth. The grant, awarded to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will support research activities focused on understanding the complex biological mechanisms underlying preterm birth, a critical public...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $422,125 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). The grant, awarded on July 1, 2025, aims to implement a novel chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique to non-invasively track antiretroviral (ARV)-linked fetal neurodevelopmental adverse events during gestation...