This $158,216 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), will support a longitudinal study on the effects of prenatal exposure to maternal incarceration on infant and toddler health and development. The research will analyze data from the "Birth Beyond Bars" study to assess the impact of environmental factors before and during maternal...
This federal Project Grant award of $694,528.00 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 study the learning and educational attainment of preterm and at-risk infants. The grant, awarded on June 5, 2025, will fund a comprehensive research project to be conducted by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals' Kaiser Foundation Research Institute Division over a period of...
This $779,911 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to evaluate the impact of a music-based intervention (MBI) on preterm infant stress, brain development, and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. The MBI will be delivered to preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) between 32-40 weeks gestation, with outcomes assessed during the NICU stay and up to 2...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $291,523 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to Takeoff41, Inc. located in Menlo Park, CA. The goal of this 1-year project is to develop an FDA-approved artificial intelligence (AI)-driven total parenteral nutrition (TPN) platform to provide cost-effective and personalized nutrition for premature newborns in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA program 93.865, "Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research," provides $430,031.00 to evaluate the role of DNA methylation changes in very early preterm birth. The grant, awarded to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will support research activities focused on understanding the complex biological mechanisms underlying preterm birth, a critical public...
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 federal 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), will fund a 5-year, $160,052 research project led by Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Salazar at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute. The research aims to elucidate how two hospital factors - financial health and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) strain - influence neonatal outcome...
This $165,672 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), will fund a multi-institution study led by Dr. Rebecca Dang to investigate the impact of neonatal hypothermia on clinical outcomes and resource utilization in newborn nurseries. The key objectives are to: Analyze electronic health record data from 8 university-affiliated nurseries to assess the...
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 $760,617 to Boston Children's Hospital to conduct research on the mechanisms underlying pluripotency transitions during peri-implantation development. The research aims to identify key transcription factors and understand how DNA methylation regulates the transition from naive to formative...
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...
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 variation in key outcomes like late-onset infection and abnormal growth trajectories. The study will leverage a registry of over 3,600 very preterm infants and their mothers to conduct this analysis. The expected outcome is a novel patient selection framework to guide early life interventions, particularly those targeting early colonization, infection, and inflammation, which could improve how clinical trials are designed and care is customized for preterm infants.