Project Grant R03HD123306
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded the University of Illinois $498,000 on February 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Projects program (CFDA 93.865) to investigate neural markers of developmental delays in premature and full-term infants. The recipient will chart brain development using electroencephalography (EEG) during well-baby visits at 4, 9, and 12 months at a primary care clinic and at a 24-month follow-up lab visit,...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded the University of Illinois $110,228 on December 3, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to develop a markerless motion-capture tool for objectively evaluating motor impairments in stroke survivors. The project, titled "Action Likelihood to Evaluate Weakness, Abnormal Motor Synergies, and Spasticity in Stroke Survivors,"...
- The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute $580,517 on September 3, 2026, to examine neural features that improve brain-computer interface precision and reliability under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA 93.853). The recipient will conduct three experiments to improve BCI decoders that translate neural signals into reaching and grasping when task...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded the University of Utah $667,666 on June 3, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Projects program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct a multimodal intervention study combining transcranial random noise stimulation with functional electrical stimulation-assisted task-specific practice to promote motor recovery and upper-extremity function in stroke survivors with chronic moderate-to-severe impairment. The...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Children's Hospital Los Angeles $149,766 on July 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Projects program (CFDA 93.HDR) to conduct research on readiness potential as a neural correlate of motor planning in toddlers and young children. The project uses electroencephalography (EEG) and motion capture technology to identify and characterize readiness potential—a spike in brain activity preceding...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded the University of California, Davis $127,557 on September 30, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to evaluate force-based and position-based prosthetic control systems for children born without a hand. The research fuses surface electromyography (sEMG), which measures electrical muscle activity, with sonomyography (ultrasound), which images muscle deformation within the...
- The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded the University of Miami $581,794 on September 7, 2026, under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA 93.853). The award funds research into inflammasome activation and its role in the foreign body response triggered by chronically implanted microelectrodes in neural tissue. Microelectrode implants enable neuroprosthetic and neuromodulation technologies for patients with...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded the University of Southern California $249,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to develop the Brainstorm BIDS App for Brain Electrophysiology. The project delivers a containerized platform for Brainstorm software that enables streamlined analysis of EEG, MEG, and intracranial electrophysiology data formatted to the Brain Imaging Data Structure standard. The platform addresses...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $472,325 Project Grant to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab) on August 4, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The project, "Quantifying Selective Motor Control in Preterm Infants: A Computer Vision Approach," will develop and validate a computer...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded The Johns Hopkins University $133,432 on April 15, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to investigate the neurometabolic trajectory of the developing brain. The recipient will use magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging techniques to map multiple neurometabolites simultaneously in infants and young children,...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded the University of Miami $307,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to validate scalp electroencephalography (EEG) features for rehabilitative brain-computer interface (BCI) applications using concurrent intracranial EEG as ground truth. The project addresses a critical gap in non-invasive motor rehabilitation technologies. While invasive intracranial EEG and electrocorticography provide high-resolution neural recordings suitable for BCI-driven motor restoration in stroke, spinal cord injury, and neurodegenerative disease patients, their invasiveness limits clinical accessibility and long-term use. Scalp EEG offers a non-invasive alternative widely deployed in clinical settings, but fundamental limitations in spatial resolution and signal fidelity—particularly for high-frequency activity above 30 Hz believed to encode fine motor planning—have prevented its systematic validation against direct brain recordings. This research leverages simultaneous intracranial EEG and scalp EEG recordings from clinical patients undergoing epilepsy invasive monitoring to assess the reliability and functional relevance of high-frequency scalp EEG features during motor tasks and refine scalp EEG-based BCI approaches. Work is performed at the University of Miami's Office of Research Administration, School of Medicine Division in Miami, Florida. The period of performance runs through August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $307.0k | 9/1/26 |