The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University), through its Health Sciences Division, was awarded a $445,009 Project Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA 93.853). The grant's objective is to develop approaches for introducing developmentally-relevant inputs and reading out neuronal activity in human brain organoids to...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a USD 260,887 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute. The grant will fund research to examine the relationship between placental insufficiency, brain metabolic dysfunction, and neurodevelopmental deficits resulting from chronic in utero hypoxia. The research leverages the awardee's expertise in neuroscience, imaging,...
This federal Project Grant award of $545,450.00 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 into the neural circuit mechanisms underlying adaptive infant-directed behavior. The award to Albert Einstein College of Medicine aims to leverage knowledge of molecularly defined circuits involved in pro- and anti-parental behavior in mice to reveal how hypothalamic...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant, CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, to New York University School of Medicine in the amount of $237,030 on August 1, 2024. The grant will fund a research project titled "Longitudinal Assessment of Human Brain Connectome Changes Across the Birth Transition in Both Term and Preterm Pregnancies" to be completed by July 31, 2026. The project aims to study the...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $166,644 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Health Sciences Division, with a period of performance from June 20, 2024 to May 31, 2029. The purpose of this grant is to prepare Dr. Son H. McLaren, MD, MS for an independent research career focused on improving the health and outcomes of infants and children...
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 support research on the signaling mechanisms and functional roles of the human calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR). The $246,750 award to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York will be used to conduct structure-based functional studies to elucidate how the CaSR achieves G protein...
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 research on the neuroprotective actions of the apelinergic axis in the long-term cerebrovascular consequences of preeclampsia. The award of $232,500 was made on August 13, 2024 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences, a private, non-profit academic medical center. The research will utilize...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $127,722, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award supports a research project at Teachers College, Columbia University examining the longitudinal associations among maternal stress, epigenetic aging, and the cognitive and behavioral development of children during the first few years of life. Specifically, the...
This $444,125.00 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, will be used by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct research on the brain maturation-dependent mechanisms underlying hemorrhagic transformation after delayed reperfusion in perinatal and childhood ischemic stroke. The key objectives are to: 1)...
This $235,500 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The funding supports the development of a rodent model of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) exposure to light and sound to simulate preterm infant conditions. The project aims to: 1) track the electrophysiological development of inhibition...