Project Grant R01HD118970
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Baylor University $519,501 under project grant R15HD122735 on September 2, 2026, to conduct a longitudinal study examining the relationship between preschoolers' mobile media use and peer interaction skill development. This award is funded under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The study addresses documented declines in social skills among preschool-aged children (3 to 5 years...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded New York University $466,125 on September 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Program (CFDA 93.865) to validate scalable, gaze-based executive function assessment tasks for infants and toddlers ages 6 to 30 months. The research will develop and test two webcam-compatible, eye-tracking paradigms designed to measure inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility in brief...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded The Johns Hopkins University $133,432 on April 15, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to investigate the neurometabolic trajectory of the developing brain. The recipient will use magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging techniques to map multiple neurometabolites simultaneously in infants and young children,...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York $264,600 on May 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.HDR) to conduct longitudinal research examining the impact of problematic smartphone use on behavioral and neural functioning in adolescents. The research employs complementary longitudinal approaches with a multimodal framework to address gaps in understanding...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health $126,873 on September 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct empirical research on child maltreatment as a risk factor for problematic social media use among adolescents. The recipient will investigate whether victims of child maltreatment are more vulnerable to problematic social media use and its negative effects on...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded $1,204,106 to the University of Iowa on September 15, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct longitudinal research identifying mechanisms linking premature birth, parental factors, and numerical development in children. The research employs an accelerated longitudinal study of 240 children across the full spectrum of gestational age (23–41 weeks) to test a...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center $164,808 on June 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to support a five-year research and career development project led by Dr. Sump focused on digital health interventions for infants with poor weight gain. The project adapts an existing mHealth intervention originally developed for hospitalized infants into a comprehensive...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Boston Children's Hospital $356,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Projects program (CFDA 93.865) to develop artificial intelligence models that predict neurocognitive outcomes in children with congenital heart disease by integrating clinical, surgical, genomic, and neuroimaging data. The research addresses the gap that nearly half of children and adolescents with...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded $429,000 to the Regents of the University of Michigan on August 11, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The project, titled "Early Infant Affinity Toward Screens," will develop and test a novel research paradigm to characterize infants' behavioral and physiological responses to screen media exposure....
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Smith College $527,648 on March 18, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to investigate how parental engagement styles shape the neurodevelopmental basis of executive function in children through simultaneous brain recording of caregiver-child dyads. The research employs functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning—a non-invasive neuroimaging technique...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc. $683,107 on August 10, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to examine impacts of technology and digital media on cognitive and socioemotional development and neural mechanisms in children ages 3 to 6 years old. The research addresses conflicting evidence on whether technology and digital media use produces adverse cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, benefits in certain contexts, or no discernible effect—termed differential susceptibility. The study will recruit 150 parents and their 3-year-old children, with a goal of at least 40 percent from underserved backgrounds (racial minority, poverty), and follow them annually through age 6 (early preschool through kindergarten). Baseline assessment at age 3 will measure language, emergent literacy, numeracy, executive function, and socioemotional skills; annual follow-up visits will repeat these measures. Structural and functional MRI using established play-based protocols will occur at ages 4 and 6. Technology and digital media use will be captured through a validated parent report survey and child usage data from a validated mobile sensor. Work is performed in Baltimore, Maryland. The period of performance extends from August 10, 2026, through July 31, 2031.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $683.1k | 8/10/26 |