Project Grant R01HL180934
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded the University of Texas at Arlington $113,788 on August 14, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to investigate how changes in shared public activity spaces—such as walking trails, parks, and sidewalks—affect long-term hypertension risk trajectories in aging adults. The research uses longitudinal data from the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study to identify physical activity-related pathways...
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the Department of Health and Human Services awarded Duke University $1,532,545 on June 5, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to analyze the effect of income-based health insurance benefit designs on cardiovascular disease outcomes and disparities among low-income workers. The research examines whether employers' selective provision of more generous health benefits—such as free cardioprotective medicines or low...
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded Wake Forest University Health Sciences $881,454 on July 15, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to establish relationships between poor access to healthy food, inadequate clinical care, and hypertension progression in youth, and to identify strategies to overcome these barriers. The award supports research under the Study of the Epidemiology of Pediatric Hypertension (SUPERHERO) Registry, a longitudinal...
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center $246,000 on August 5, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to investigate sex-specific differences in subclinical cardiovascular disease phenotypes and their relationship to psychosocial stress. The recipient will develop expertise in subclinical atherosclerosis measures and cardiovascular imaging phenotypes while examining whether chronic psychosocial...
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded the University of Denver $169,638 on July 15, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to investigate neighborhood food access as a predictor of cardiovascular disease risk in early childhood. The project applies a prospective mechanistic approach to test whether limited neighborhood food access associates with obesogenic food-related behaviors and higher cardiovascular disease risk in early childhood. The...
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center $608,173 on July 1, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to investigate the role of the stretch-activated PIEZO1 channel in heart failure-associated atrial fibrillation. The research comprises three aims: testing the hypothesis that atrial stretch-induced PIEZO1 activation contributes to pathological atrial remodeling and atrial fibrillation predisposition...
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded $249,000 to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center on June 1, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to fund investigator-initiated research on fetal congenital heart disease and placental inflammation. Dr. Rachel Leon, an assistant professor in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at UT Southwestern and current NHLBI K23 awardee, will use advanced MRI techniques to investigate the influence...
- The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded Texas A&M Agrilife Research $772,567 on June 21, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to conduct a multi-site, church-engaged randomized trial reducing cardiovascular disease and cancer risk in lower-income communities across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The project, "StrongPeople Together," engages ten church sites through three coordinated aims. Aim 1...
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded the University of Texas at Austin $238,858 on September 1, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to develop personalized prediction models for HER2-induced cardiovascular adverse events in older women with breast cancer using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The award funds a cohort study using 2011–2022 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)–Medicare data linked with American...
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center $191,636 on April 1, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to conduct a longitudinal examination of food insecurity and cardiometabolic health risk in Hispanic/Latino adolescents. The project will capture longitudinal data over a six-month study period at baseline, three months, and six months to understand mechanisms underlying the relationships among food...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the Department of Health and Human Services awarded Texas A&M Agrilife Research $787,642 on August 1, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to evaluate the impact of pay-what-you-can restaurants on coronary heart disease-related outcomes among hypertensive, food-insecure individuals. The research will conduct a prospective natural experiment and mixed-methods process evaluation across two pay-what-you-can cafes operated by Taste Community Restaurants in West Dallas, Texas. The study compares coronary heart disease-related physiological and psychosocial outcomes between a cohort of 155 hypertensive, food-insecure cafe guests and a matched control group of 155 residents from locations without a cafe. Data collection occurs at baseline and every three months for one year, with primary physiological outcomes measuring changes in blood pressure and secondary outcomes tracking blood lipid levels and psychosocial factors. The research tests the hypothesis that accessing healthy meals and social connection through the cafes will produce significantly greater improvements in blood pressure and other coronary heart disease-related outcomes compared to the control group. A mixed-methods re-aim process evaluation characterizes how the cafes address coronary heart disease outcomes for hypertensive, food-insecure guests. The period of performance runs from August 1, 2026, through June 30, 2031, with place of performance in Dallas, Texas.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $787.6k | 7/31/26 |