This Project Grant award of $127,922.00 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262), will fund a research project at William Paterson University of New Jersey to capture body segment changes during pregnancy and develop an accurate biomechanical model. The project aims to recognize new occupational hazards, define the magnitude of workplace health problems, and evaluate the effectiveness of prevention...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262), provides $203,075.00 to Purdue University to develop skin-interfaced triboelectric sensors that continuously monitor worker force exertions to prevent workplace injuries. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The goal of this research project is to recognize new occupational hazards, define the...
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, awarded a $887,772 Project Grant under CFDA 93.262 Occupational Safety and Health Program to Applied Design Technologies, Inc. in Pullman, Michigan. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will fund the development of the CLEARWORKS PARTICULATE RESPIRATOR over a 2-year period ending on August 31, 2026. The project aims to advance worker safety and health through...
Rutgers, The State University received a three-year, $360,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to develop an electronic-sensing and magnetic-modulation biosensor for phagocytosis quantification. The grant is funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research. Specifically, Rutgers will utilize the funding to create an electronic device capable of quantifying the process of phagocytosis, which...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), provides $158,000.00 to Rutgers, The State University to conduct research on mechanisms of nitric oxide detoxification and reactivity in the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The research aims to elucidate both the cell-intrinsic regulatory pathways that allow P. aeruginosa to resist nitric oxide toxicity, as well as...
This federal Project Grant award of $240,062 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262), supports research to investigate the synergistic effects of chronic manganese fume inhalation and occupational noise exposure on hearing loss. The award, with a performance period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2026, will be executed by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF...
This Project Grant award of $258,598 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262), supports research by Mississippi State University to assess cognitive factors for construction workers using an integrated approach of virtual reality, wearable devices, and data analytics. The goal is to advance human-robot collaboration in the construction industry. The award has a project period from September 30, 2024...
This federal Project Grant award of $228,750 was provided by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), which administers the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262). The award will fund research by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) to "DEFIN[E] THE ROLE OF IL-1B IN TUNGSTEN-MEDIATED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE" over a 2-year period from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2026. The research aims to recognize new occupational hazards,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey will support a bioethics research project entitled "Human Intentional Environmental Exposure Studies: What Risks are Acceptable, and to Whom?". The project will collect data on the views of scientists who conduct intentional environmental exposure studies (IEES), communities disproportionately affected by pollution,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $235,500 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to conduct research on reducing lung toxicity caused by chlorine exposure. The research focuses on investigating how electrophilic fatty acids can inhibit the activation and recruitment of pro-inflammatory macrophages, which play a key role in chlorine-induced lung injury. The 2-year project involves...