Project Grant R03HD094581

This 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), provides $178,000.00 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to design and validate a Pelizaeus Merzbacher Disease (PMD) severity scale. The goal is to develop a clinician-reported outcome measure that can be used to stratify PMD patients by disease severity, particularly early in the disease...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $295,907 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Liberating Technologies Inc. (LTI) to develop a prototype "Unintrusive Pediatric Logging Orthosis Analytic Device (UPLOAD)." The goal is to create a commercially viable, unobtrusive remote monitoring system for pediatric orthotics that can improve compliance tracking. Key features include long battery life, low...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, received a $974,999 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) under CFDA 93.433, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2030. The Building Advanced Cerebral Palsy Assistive Care Solutions (BACPACS) initiative addresses cerebral palsy, the most common cause of pediatric disability in the United...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,278,689 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to develop an automated Neonatal Pain Monitoring System (NPMS) and pain management protocol to objectively measure and minimize postoperative pain in newborns. The project has two key objectives: 1) Develop and validate AI-driven neonatal pain biomarker signatures and an automated NPMS to continuously...

This $408,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program supports research to provide a comprehensive EEG profile of the cortical activity underlying the cognitive processing of the sensory-discriminative and affective-motivational dimensions of osteoarthritis knee pain. The research, conducted by Tarleton State University,...

This three-year $896,236 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will fund research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to determine biomechanical mechanisms that optimize walking rehabilitation for children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. The research will examine the effects of walking speed and environment (overground, dry treadmill, wet treadmill) on lower body kinematics and muscular demand. It will also link...

Award Summary Seattle Children's Research Institute received a $5.03 million Project Grant 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), awarded September 30, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2029. This longitudinal research project will investigate the role of early life social determinants and sex-specific pubertal pathways in adolescent chronic...

This $743,742 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) supports a five-year research initiative at the University of Alabama at Birmingham examining postoperative pain through a biopsychosocial framework. The research project, "Contemporary Human Models of Postoperative Pain: A Biopsychosocial Investigation in General Surgery," will investigate the mechanisms...

Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) a $1.44 million project grant through the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) beginning August 11, 2025, with completion scheduled for April 30, 2030. This research initiative will deliver biomechanical analyses and clinical assessments addressing carpal tunnel...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) a $472,325 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) on August 4, 2025, with completion scheduled for July 31, 2027. The grant funds the development of a computer vision algorithm to quantify selective motor control (SMC) and infant joint kinematics...