This federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under CFDA 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research provides $777,258 to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (BIDMC) to conduct research focused on unraveling the mechanisms of heart failure in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The 5-year project aims to improve understanding of heart failure in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy through novel cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) phenotyping techniques,...
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $644,279 Project Grant under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361) to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Bidmc) to conduct research on leveraging the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to improve cardiovascular health among low-income adults in the United States. The project, titled "Leveraging SNAP Policies to Improve the Cardiovascular Health of Low-Income Adults in the United States," will use...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research) provides $190,491 to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. to conduct research on plasma protein markers of the blood pressure response during exercise and their relation to incident hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The project aims to identify circulating proteins associated with exercise blood pressure that could serve as predictive markers for future...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research will support a $224,142 epidemiologic study to determine the prevalence and correlates of atherosclerotic resilience, measured by the absence of coronary artery calcium (CAC=0), among 4,000 participants in the Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal (RURAL) cohort study across the southeastern U.S. The research aims to provide insights into the biopsychosocial...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), will fund research to understand disparities in the incidence, outcomes, and post-partum care of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP). The $502,069 award to Mayo Clinic, a non-profit academic medical center, will quantify the moderating effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on the relationship between urban/rural status and HDP. The research...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $874,792 Project Grant under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). The award, effective July 15, 2024 through June 30, 2028, will support research to: (1) identify new genetic variants associated with residual atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk in patients on treatment to lower LDL-cholesterol...
This is a Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research (CFDA 93.837) program. The $827,682 award will fund a comprehensive research project to develop advanced imaging techniques, including dynamic contrast-enhanced CT, dual-energy CT, and electrical impedance tomography, to characterize pulmonary perfusion and guide personalized treatment of acute respiratory distress...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded a $705,279 Project Grant (CFDA 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research) to Trustees of Boston University, doing business as Boston University Medical Campus, to investigate the mechanisms by which environmental pollutants impact the cardiovascular system. The 4-year project, starting January 1, 2025, will use a multidisciplinary approach including physiological studies, cellular imaging, RNA-sequencing, and mouse models to...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under CFDA Program 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research, provides $1,410,766 to the University of Florida to conduct a mixed methods comparative effectiveness analysis on the utilization and impact of telehealth and home blood pressure monitoring technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to: 1) evaluate trends and disparities in telehealth and home monitoring utilization, 2) estimate the...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), provides $500,660 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, from Aug 1, 2025 to May 31, 2029. The grant aims to advance statistical methods for pooling data from multiple longitudinal cohort studies, in order to improve the robustness and generalizability of findings from such studies. Specifically, the project will develop...