Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, San Francisco received a $376,184 Project Grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) effective August 1, 2025, with completion anticipated by May 31, 2029. This research initiative, titled "The Last Mile of Interoperability: Integrating Outside Data into Clinical Workflows to Improve Care," addresses a critical gap in healthcare data...
Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. a Project Grant of $320,622 under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) on July 28, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2029. The project, titled "Retrospective Magnetic Resonance Image Harmonization for Robust Federated Learning," addresses critical challenges in applying deep learning...
Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded $351,000 to the Regents of the University of Michigan through the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) on August 4, 2025, for a project extending through May 31, 2029. This Project Grant supports the development and implementation of computational, data, and network science tools designed to measure and improve the innovative potential of research and translation through temporal...
Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded Stanford University a $462,000 Project Grant under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) effective September 27, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2027. This project enhances the Comprehensive Metadata Management Environment (CEDAR) platform to advance open science by improving the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR) of scientific...
Federal Project Grant Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco a Project Grant of $338,538 under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) to develop computational algorithms for integrating multi-modal brain imaging and genomics data. The award, issued June 10, 2025, with a completion date of April 30, 2029, supports the creation of an unsupervised machine learning algorithm designed...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, San Francisco received a $249,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) on August 5, 2025, with completion scheduled for July 31, 2028. This award supports the development of a data science framework designed to transform Electronic Health Records (EHRs) into real-world evidence by integrating and harmonizing EHR data with raw...
Federal Grant Award Summary Clairyon, Inc. received a $410,924 Project Grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) effective September 1, 2025, through February 28, 2026. The award funds the development and validation of QUALLM (Quality Measure Abstraction Language Model), an automated toolset designed to revolutionize real-time quality measure abstraction and evaluation in healthcare settings. The solution...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Pittsburgh received a $1.4M Project Grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2029. This award funds the development of a comprehensive computational framework designed to standardize and automate the iterative processes of assembly, documentation, verification, and validation of cell signaling models. The...
Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded Massachusetts General Hospital a $446,800 Project Grant under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) effective September 27, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2027. The award funds enhancement of the Open Health Imaging Foundation (OHIF) Viewer and its underlying libraries, including Cornerstone3D, to deliver a professional-grade, open-source web-based imaging informatics...
Federal Grant Award Summary Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. received a $402,750 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2029. The grant supports the development of large language models (LLMs) for drug safety and effectiveness causal analysis using real-world data extracted from electronic health records (EHRs). The project addresses the significant...
Federal Grant Award Summary
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded $1,164,870 under the Medical Library Assistance program (CFDA 93.879) to The Regents of the University of California/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on September 27, 2025, for a project completion date of August 31, 2027. This Project Grant funds the modernization of the Hierarchical Data Modeling Framework (HDMF), an open-source software tool that underpins the Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) data standard for neurophysiology research. The project delivers enhanced software capabilities that improve data standardization, interoperability, and accessibility across the neuroscience research community, supporting over 310 public datasets from 150+ laboratories currently archived in the DANDI data repository.
The award specifically funds two primary deliverables: (1) implementation of LinkML schema language support within HDMF to enable simplified harmonization and data exchange with other scientific data standards, along with integration of ontologies and controlled terminologies to improve data model expressiveness; and (2) modernization of the HDMF application programming interface (API) through integration with the Pydantic library, replacing custom validation systems with Python type hints and automated documentation tools to enhance maintainability and user-friendliness. These improvements directly advance the Medical Library Assistance program's mission to support biomedical informatics development and standardized data management systems that strengthen biomedical research infrastructure and data interoperability.