This Project Grant award of $635,684 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) supports research to investigate the relationship between neuronal activity and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses during context-dependent sensory processing in the mouse olfactory system. The study aims to elucidate the neural underpinnings of fMRI signals, which is...
This $432,749 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) aims to develop a "silent, whole-brain fMRI acquisition" technology. The overarching goal is to create a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) method that can reduce acoustic noise and motion artifacts, enabling quieter brain imaging studies for children,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $665,886 to New York University School of Medicine to conduct research on information processing in the peripheral olfactory system. The key objectives of this 5-year research project are to: 1) characterize the transformation of odor responses from glomeruli to mitral and tufted...
This federal Project Grant award of $682,219 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), supports research aimed at defining mechanisms driving olfactory neuronal homeostasis and dysfunction in humans. The research will identify organized patterns of gene expression in olfactory neurons isolated from human biopsies, both in healthy controls and individuals with...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $502,742.00 and provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to uncover fundamental principles of sensory processing in the piriform cortex (PCX) of the mammalian brain. The research seeks to understand how the PCX encodes and represents olfactory information, with the goal of advancing knowledge of neural coding and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director, under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), provides $2,156,000 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to develop and validate novel neuroimaging methods for studying cerebral blood flow, oxygen availability, pH, and carbon dioxide levels in the brain. The goal is to establish a transformative approach for non-invasively quantifying these critical metabolic parameters, which are...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $390,616 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for the development of layer-specific functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques for clinical 3 Tesla scanners. The goal is to improve signal-to-noise ratio and reduce scan time for layer-specific fMRI, which currently...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $423,500 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173) to Florida State University to investigate novel approaches to understanding olfactory information processing in the piriform cortex. The 2-year research project, titled "An Innovative Approach to Cracking Odor Coding in the Piriform Cortex", aims to examine how individual and ensemble neural activity in the piriform cortex encodes odor identity across different...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $2,671,407 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to Estenda Solutions, Inc. to launch and validate HUB4SMELL, a multi-test, collaborative, digital platform designed to promote insights from human olfactory data. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: 1) Customized tools for human olfactory data collection, curation, and...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $599,994.30 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop novel radiofrequency hardware for use at 10.5 Tesla to obtain functional magnetic resonance imaging signals at ultra-high resolutions in non-human primates. The goal is to directly test how well whole brain directional connectivity estimates from fMRI correspond with ground truth tract tracing...