This Project Grant award of $127,557 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) aims to evaluate the feasibility of force-based and position-based prosthetic control for children born without a hand. The key objectives are to: (1) maximize the combined accuracy of surface electromyography (sEMG) and ultrasound (US) in predicting static hand grasps, and...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports research to investigate the use of operant conditioning of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) to target corticospinal plasticity and improve upper limb motor recovery in individuals with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The $115,881 award, effective April 15, 2025 through March 31, 2027, will...
This federal Project Grant award of $634,234.00 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) aims to improve the health, care, and well-being of individuals with transhumeral limb loss. The key products and services to be delivered include: Collecting high-precision, bilateral, 3D form-function data to quantify kinematic compensations and morphological...
This federal Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA Program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, provides $185,713 to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab) to study neuromodulatory strategies targeting cortical and spinal pathways to facilitate paretic leg motor control during walking in individuals with stroke. The key objectives are...
This federal Project Grant award for $577,880.00, 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, aims to develop advanced deep learning techniques to improve control of prosthetic hands for individuals with upper limb amputations. The grant supports research objectives to be conducted by the Regents of the University of Michigan over a period of 5...
This federal Project Grant award of $160,000 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Northwestern University supports research to directly evaluate the neural pathways involved in post-stroke hemiparesis. The objective is to generate fMRI data capturing activity in the corticospinal tract (CST) and cortico-reticulospinal tract (CRST) during unilateral hand-grasping tasks with the paretic versus...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program aims to advance the understanding of muscle spindle function and its role in human sensorimotor control of balance and movement. The $224,580 award, spanning August 2025 to July 2027, will fund a research project at Emory University that combines computational modeling, microneurography...
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), is providing $330,000 to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab) to conduct research on improving locomotor function in individuals with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). The key objectives of this 2-year grant (Award ID: R03HD114768, August 1, 2024...
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 $473,906 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (dba University of Colorado-Denver) to conduct research on osseoperception, proprioception, and postural control in individuals with osseointegrated prostheses. The study aims to test the impact of prosthesis...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under CFDA Program 93.853 "Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders", provides $427,625.00 to study whether electrical stimulation can enhance the capacity of neural stem cell transplants to improve recovery from chronic spinal cord injury. The primary goal is to determine if electrical stimulation supports the survival and differentiation of stem...