Project Grant R21NR021268
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under CFDA 93.361 - Nursing Research, will support the development and evaluation of IMAAP, an interactive mobile asthma action plan. The $441,375 award, effective July 17, 2024 through May 31, 2026, aims to create an innovative technology that leverages objective lung function assessment, symptom reporting, and personalized treatment recommendations to empower adolescents, particularly those from...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under the Nursing Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.361), aims to refine a digital Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) to improve pain and sleep among adolescents and young adults (AYA) with sickle cell disease (SCD). The $114,843 award, with a project period from June 2025 to May 2027, will be used to adapt the MBI through user-centered design, evaluate its feasibility and acceptability, and compare the...
- The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) awarded a $155,500 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to assess the feasibility of delivering tailored guidance on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-related health needs to families and care teams using a low-cost, web-based and mobile app intervention called MyIBDPlan. The 2-year project, titled "Feasibility of a Care Team-Focused Action Plan to Improve Quality of Care for Children and...
- The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), awarded a $349,160 Project Grant to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial assessing the feasibility and clinical impact of an 8-week home-based virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program for patients with inflammatory bowel...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361), supports the development of Potentia Analytics Inc.'s "MyDocSaid" application. The $284,317 award will fund the creation of a patient-centric digital health recorder that uses advanced natural language processing and artificial intelligence to transcribe, summarize, and provide contextual insights from medical conversations. The goal is to enhance patient...
- This $202,728 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program funds a collaborative research project to develop a theragnostic (therapeutic and diagnostic) system for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). The project aims to integrate data science, synthetic biology, and additive manufacturing to model the complex interplay of host, microbial, and environmental factors in IBD, and develop an engineered...
- This $705,182 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), will develop and validate a specialized suite of Inflammation Digital Pathology Tools (IDPT). The IDPT will comprise new pathomics and machine learning models tailored for use in preclinical models of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and graft-versus-host disease...
- This Project Grant award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) is providing $731,130 to the Children's Hospital Medical Center to conduct a study titled "Improving Medication Adherence Using an Adaptive mHealth Intervention in Adolescents with Asthma". The study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a stepped-care mHealth intervention for improving adherence to daily inhaled corticosteroids in adolescents with asthma. The...
- This federal Project Grant award of $196,940, issued on June 3, 2025 by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), supports a 5-year study to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a phone-based Positive Psychology Intervention (PPI) for patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The project, titled "WISH", will be conducted...
- This federal Project Grant award for $350,000 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) supports the development of a mnemonic-based digital platform for improving health literacy among secondary students. The project aims to integrate game-based learning, mnemonics, and artificial intelligence strategies to create an interactive educational platform focused on the endocrine, immune, and circulatory...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Federal Grant Program titled "Nursing Research" (CFDA 93.361), provides $441,375 to Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, OH to evaluate the SMART IBD app digital therapeutic tool for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The project aims to address the significant issue of poor disease self-management in pediatric IBD, with up to 88% of adolescents demonstrating nonadherence to medication. The award period runs from September 3, 2025 through August 31, 2027. The project will involve developing and testing a mobile app that provides IBD-specific self-management assistance, including features to track symptoms, medications, and reminders. This effort builds on prior research by the awardee to develop evidence-based, multicomponent self-management interventions for pediatric IBD patients.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $441.4k | 9/3/25 |