Project Grant R25MH144930
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded $215,157 to the University of Pennsylvania on August 18, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to support the Penn CFAR Scholars Program, an initiative providing mentored research exposure and professional development to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing careers in HIV/AIDS research and academic medicine. The program leverages expertise across the Penn Center for AIDS Research, a collaborative research...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Washington $699,750 on May 7, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to adapt and evaluate the "Do More, Feel Better" behavioral activation intervention for older people living with HIV who experience depression and have limited access to professional mental health care. The project addresses a documented gap: older people living with HIV (age 50 and above) represent more than half of the...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The Johns Hopkins University $149,190 on August 2, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to identify intervention opportunities in the continuum of cognitive impairment among persons aging with HIV. The research will estimate the proportion of cognitive impairment cases among people with HIV potentially attributable to psychosocial and behavioral risk factors, prioritizing those interventions that could prevent the...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $787,498 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on July 1, 2026, to characterize HIV persistence and neuroinflammation in central nervous system (CNS) reservoirs in vivo using barcoded HIV tracking, spatial transcriptomics, single-cell RNA sequencing, and integration site analysis. The research investigates the contributions of T cell populations in HIV persistence and inflammation...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Drexel University $100,228 on December 16, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to support research on HIV-induced trained immunity in microglia and its contribution to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). The project investigates whether trained immunity—a form of innate immune memory characterized by hyperresponsiveness to secondary inflammatory stimulation—occurs in microglial cells of people living with...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded $1,518,208 to Rush University Medical Center on April 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop and employ a human-mouse chimera model for studying HIV infection in the central nervous system and HIV-associated neurocognitive deficits in antiretroviral therapy-treated patients. The award supports research that models the dynamics of HIV crossing the blood-brain barrier into the brain, the resulting...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Alabama at Birmingham $1.809 million on June 5, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop novel preclinical models of neuroHIV that incorporate antiretroviral therapy suppression dynamics. The award funds development of next-generation neuroHIV models composed of autologous peripheral human immune cells, relevant human glial cell types, and an intact blood-brain barrier in the context of...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Alabama at Birmingham $678,550 on July 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct a randomized clinical trial evaluating the Advanced HIV Re-engagement in Care (ARC) intervention in Zambia. ARC is a package of evidence-based, theory-informed elements delivered by supervised community health workers during hospitalization and the post-discharge period to improve outcomes for people with...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded the University of Michigan $2.9 million under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on September 22, 2025, for a four-year project period extending through September 2029. This research project investigates the neural mechanisms underlying associative learning by examining how midbrain inferior colliculus (IC) neurons contribute to differential reinforcement learning in mammals. The primary...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of South Carolina $1,016,319 on July 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop multimodal artificial intelligence methods for monitoring and predicting neurocognitive impairment in people with HIV. The project integrates electronic health records, genomic, survey, and imaging data from the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program—a centralized repository with de-identified...
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the Regents of the University of Michigan $215,998 on August 19, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to deliver the Advancing Research Careers in HIV Program, a two-year research education and mentoring initiative. The program cultivates the next generation of interdisciplinary HIV social and behavioral science researchers by educating and guiding master's-level students in public health, nursing, and social work toward advanced doctoral degree programs and careers in HIV science. Participants engage in HIV-focused social behavioral science and dissemination and implementation science coursework through experiential learning, a hybrid apprenticeship mentored research experience, and structured career development. The program employs interprofessional education strategies, cohort-based learning, and a mentoring ecosystem grounded in expanded social cognitive career theory to prepare scholars for implementation and dissemination HIV research that will improve uptake of and access to biomedical and behavioral interventions to reduce HIV in the United States. The award is classified as a Project Grant, an assistance type under NIMH's Mental Health Research Grants program supporting specified project periods not to exceed five years. Performance takes place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The period of performance extends through May 31, 2031.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $216.0k | 8/21/26 |