Project Grant R34AA032298
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), awarded a $309,452 Project Grant to Real Recovery VR, Inc. on Sep 15, 2025. The award supports the development of a virtual reality (VR) platform that counselors can use to enhance treatment techniques and improve outcomes among those with alcohol use disorder (AUD). The project aims to leverage VR technology to provide patients with opportunities to practice coping skills in...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) program, is for a $735,930 feasibility and acceptability study of a large language model-based conversational agent for brief alcohol intervention among emerging adults (ages 18-29). The award will support the development, validation, and open trial of a conversational agent-delivered brief intervention designed to reduce alcohol use and problems...
- This $306,860 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, aims to develop and test a prototype of an online alcohol prevention game for 13-15 year olds. The game will focus on strengthening psychosocial protective factors, such as social skills, personal values, and perceptions about alcohol use among peers, to deter the onset and progression of adolescent alcohol misuse. The...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), through its Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), awarded a $734,468 Project Grant to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for the project "SOCIAL IDENTITY MAPPING FOR ADOLESCENT RECOVERY: DEVELOPING A NOVEL SOCIAL NETWORK INTERVENTION". The goal of this 3-year project, with a period of performance from Sep 2025 to Aug 2028, is to finalize and pilot test a new...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded a $399,048 Project Grant under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to examine behavioral and electrophysiological cue reactivity in young adult binge drinkers. The study will compare responses to uni- and multisensory alcohol and neutral cues that vary in degree of realistic appearance, and explore the effects of multisensory congruence on cue responses. The project...
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a $426,036 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to Tulane University. The award will fund a study to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a virtual reality-based mindfulness intervention, called "TRIPP," to support people with comorbid HIV and substance use disorders. This population faces significant public health challenges, as substance...
- The University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division is receiving a $429,964 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273). The award will support an idiographic examination of how alcohol use may be motivated by a desire to dampen positive emotions among individuals with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD). The research will leverage...
- This federal Project Grant award of $423,313, provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), aims to develop an AI-driven platform for identifying potential therapeutic candidates for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). The award to Biosymetrics Inc., based in Huntington, NY, will leverage the company's existing AI-based zebrafish behavioral screening technology and AUD-specific experimental findings to create a commercial...
- This Project Grant award of $685,691 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), awarded under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) on September 25, 2025, supports the development and piloting of an innovative Motivational Interviewing Video Reinforcement (MIVR) intervention. The MIVR approach aims to extend the impact of a single Motivational Interviewing session for patients with Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease (ALD) by providing personalized video clips of the...
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded a $498,002 Project Grant under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to the University of Illinois to conduct a study aimed at increasing alcohol abstinence in young adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD). The overall goals of this 3-year project are to: (1) test the efficacy of combining contingency management (CM) with problem-solving therapy (CM-PST) versus CM alone in a 2-arm pilot randomized controlled trial, and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), provides $197,302 to Brown University to develop a virtual reality-based intervention to help adults with alcohol use disorder learn and practice coping skills in realistic high-risk situations. The goal is to improve the efficacy of treatment for alcohol use disorders, which affect over 100 million people worldwide and are a leading cause of disability. The project will run from September 2025 to August 2028, and involves using immersive virtual reality experiences to allow patients to identify triggers, experiment with coping strategies, and practice deploying them in realistic scenarios. This approach aims to enhance the traditional counseling methods used to teach coping skills, which are a core component of evidence-based treatments for alcohol use disorders.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $197.3k | 9/23/25 |