This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver 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 $291,848 research study at the University of Illinois focused on the impact of cognitive-motor interference on balance control in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The study aims to investigate proactive and reactive balance control in single and dual-task conditions, as well...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to quantify balance control mechanisms during walking in individuals with chronic stroke. The $137,859 award, granted on June 12, 2025, will fund research to 1) characterize balance control mechanisms during unconstrained and complex walking tasks in those with and without chronic...
This Project Grant award of $127,557 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) aims to evaluate the feasibility of force-based and position-based prosthetic control for children born without a hand. The key objectives are to: (1) maximize the combined accuracy of surface electromyography (sEMG) and ultrasound (US) in predicting static hand grasps, and...
This federal Project Grant award of $618,907.00 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support the development and optimization of novel neurostimulation strategies to restore intuitive and informative somatosensation to people with tetraplegia. The primary goals are to: 1) Determine the impact of spatiotemporal intracortical microstimulation...
This federal Project Grant award of $458,806 was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The grant will support research at the University of Chicago to characterize the fundamental differences between projection and local pathways of proprioceptive signaling in Drosophila larvae. The research aims to provide a comprehensive anatomical...
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 $439,255.00 in funding to the University of Illinois to conduct a study titled "Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation to Facilitate Perturbation-Based Reactive Balance Training for Fall-Risk Reduction Post-Stroke: The REACTplusNMES Trial." The study aims to improve fall prevention...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $473,906 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (dba University of Colorado-Denver) to conduct research on osseoperception, proprioception, and postural control in individuals with osseointegrated prostheses. The study aims to test the impact of prosthesis...
This federal Project Grant award of $634,234.00 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) aims to improve the health, care, and well-being of individuals with transhumeral limb loss. The key products and services to be delivered include: Collecting high-precision, bilateral, 3D form-function data to quantify kinematic compensations and morphological...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports research to investigate the use of operant conditioning of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) to target corticospinal plasticity and improve upper limb motor recovery in individuals with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The $115,881 award, effective April 15, 2025 through March 31, 2027, will...
This Project Grant award of $489,062 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to understand how the brain integrates multiple sensory inputs to enable complex physical actions and maintain postural stability. The research project employs innovative virtual reality and robotic systems to study how humans control their movements and balance when interacting with...