The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has awarded a $423,985 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Illinois to develop a novel non-invasive monitoring system for detecting placental dysfunction and associated pregnancy complications. The funding will support research to utilize extracellular vesicles (EVs) circulating in maternal blood as biomarkers, using a "target recycling...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $461,780 R21 project grant (CFDA 93.865: Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on August 1, 2023 to investigate the feasibility of a clinical-scale, anticoagulation-free artificial placenta device. The project aims to overcome key barriers to the clinical translation of artificial placenta technology, which is designed to simulate...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded the University of South Carolina a Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) totaling $222,499 to enhance the survival of low birth weight infants in low-resource settings using an implementation science approach. The project aims to test the effectiveness of an intervention grounded in the Information, Motivation, and Behavior (IMB) model, which offers emotional,...
This $178,000 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) supports research to develop an early life phenotyping framework for very preterm infants. The research aims to create 'perinatal phenotypes' by integrating variables such as reason for preterm birth, intrapartum care, and neonatal presentation, and then determine how these phenotypes contribute to...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $171,728 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Weill Medical College of Cornell University to study the role of premature infant gut microbiome dysbiosis in mediating immune development and response to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. The research aims to define how the altered gut microbiome in premature infants impacts their ability to mount effective...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,284,810 Project Grant under CFDA 93.865, the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of California, San Diego. The "Restoring Equity to Measuring and Preventing Perinatal Intimate Partner Violence (REMAP-IPV)" project will train a diverse cohort of early-stage investigators on the ethical measurement of perinatal...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $481,250 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will support research to investigate the mechanisms of neuroinflammation and perinatal brain injury associated with intrauterine infection by the bacteria Ureaplasma parvum. Specifically, the project aims to assess...
This Project Grant award of $641,883, provided by 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), will support research to determine the effect of supplementing premature guinea pigs with candidate human placental proteins. The goal is to improve outcomes for extremely premature infants by addressing developmental issues with the brain, lungs, retina, intestines,...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $866,579 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to evaluate the effectiveness of an "Optimizing Ventilation (OPTI-VENT) Bundle" in improving cardiac arrest outcomes among children. The OPTI-VENT Bundle consists of provider education and...
The University of Washington received a $615,478 Project Grant award 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). The grant, awarded on June 18, 2025, will fund research to develop a combination therapy optimizing neuroprotection for infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in low- and middle-income countries. The research will utilize in vitro and...