Project Grant R21HD123164
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded the University of Houston $117,801 on July 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Projects program (CFDA 93.865) to support research on developmental mechanisms of joint attention during parent-infant play among infants at high familial likelihood of later autism diagnosis. The research examines how infants' brains learn to pay attention within complex, dynamic, and ecologically valid social...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded New York University $245,782 on February 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to establish a cohort of 90 high-risk pregnancies and investigate how maternal immune activation alters fetal and infant brain development across the birth transition period. The research integrates advanced neuroimaging, maternal inflammatory biomarkers, and objective infant behavioral...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded the University of Southern California $236,202 on April 9, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct research on prenatal and parenting influences on school-age executive function. The research examines separate and joint maternal and paternal contributions to child development from the prenatal period through middle childhood. Aim 1 tests how maternal and paternal...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded the University of Houston $332,140 on June 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct a longitudinal study of how sustained attention develops in infants through multimodal measurement of behavioral, neural, and autonomic systems. The research integrates head-mounted eye tracking, electroencephalography, and heart rate monitoring to observe sustained attention...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Children's Research Institute $500,500 on September 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.HDR) to conduct a prospective observational study integrating bedside sleep monitoring tools for preterm infants during the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) stay. The research addresses sleep-cycle maturation in preterm infants born during the extrauterine third trimester. Sleep...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc. $683,107 on August 10, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to examine impacts of technology and digital media on cognitive and socioemotional development and neural mechanisms in children ages 3 to 6 years old. The research addresses conflicting evidence on whether technology and digital media use produces...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, awarded the University of Rochester $580,341 on June 19, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.HDR) to conduct empirical research identifying the susceptibility mechanisms through which children's environmental sensitivity moderates the relationship between family functioning and psychological...
- 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 awarded the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, $720,463 on July 3, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to develop a fully automated wearable sensor toolkit for early detection and surveillance of infant motor deficits. The toolkit will detect motor deficits in infants within the first few months of life during free-living activities in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a $1,142,622 project grant to the University of Massachusetts Boston under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct a three-year study examining episodic future thinking (EFT) development in early childhood. The research will quantify the processing capacity of EFT during memory retrieval and planning in 3- and 4-year-old children while identifying...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded New York University $466,125 on September 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Program (CFDA 93.865) to validate scalable, gaze-based executive function assessment tasks for infants and toddlers ages 6 to 30 months. The research will develop and test two webcam-compatible, eye-tracking paradigms designed to measure inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility in brief five-to-seven-minute sessions deployable remotely in home environments or in-laboratory settings. A cross-sectional sample of 280 infants and toddlers (40 per age group at 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 24, and 30 months) will complete assessments. Subsets will participate in remote retest sessions and cross-context comparisons (remote versus in-lab) to establish test-retest and cross-context reliability. The research will evaluate task feasibility, validity, and developmental sensitivity, linking performance to caregiver-reported executive function behaviors and externalizing symptoms. The award addresses a critical measurement gap: existing behavioral tasks require motor and language skills beyond infants' capacity, while available gaze-based measures cannot be administered before 22 months and rely on in-person testing. This work targets early identification of children at risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, externalizing psychopathology, and impaired school readiness. The period of performance runs from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2028. Work is performed in New York, NY.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $466.1k | 8/27/26 |