Project Grant R43DE021641

Resuture Inc. received a $273,462 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an Open Vascular Surgical Training System for Skill Acquisition and Evaluation. The NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Under this award dated February 15, 2021 with a completion date of January 31, 2022, Resuture will create a virtual reality simulator to...

This $823,472 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to advance understanding of soft tissue interfaces. The Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation is supporting this work under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The university researchers will experimentally and computationally investigate the mechanisms governing the mechanical behavior of soft tissue interfaces. They will conduct experiments to quantify...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $1,200,000 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop multimodal techniques to enhance intra- and post-operative learning and coordination between attending and resident surgeons. The key objectives are to: Collect and curate a dataset of up to 100 laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgeries, including surgeons' gaze, operating room...

This is a $300,000 EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to design neuro-adaptive technology for robotic-assisted surgery. The grant supports research to monitor surgeons' workload levels, understand the causes of mental overload, and develop interventions using an AI-powered multi-sensing system and context-awareness architecture. The goal is to refine remote surgery techniques to make...

This $4,682,806 federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports advanced tele-robotic surgery research for combat casualty care. The University of Illinois, the primary awardee, will conduct research to develop innovative surgical techniques and technologies that enable highly precise robotic-assisted surgical resections without risking injury to critical supporting structures. This work aims to...

Federal Grant Award Summary Vanderbilt University received a $2.22 million Project Grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to develop an augmented reality (AR) guidance system with deformation modeling for head and neck tumor resection. The project, awarded August 5, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2029, addresses the clinical...

Grant Award Summary Gravitate AI (Boston AI LLC) received a $326,813 Project Grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286). The award, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026, supports development of an artificial intelligence-enabled training tool designed to assess and improve surgical suturing skills. The solution combines proprietary...

This CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of Texas at Austin on physics-based perception of three-dimensional human-world interactions. The project, awarded $349,323 on June 1, 2026, with completion targeted for May 31, 2032, develops a unified framework for learning physically grounded models of human-world...

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $398,487 Project Grant (CFDA 93.286 - Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health) to Vanderbilt University to develop and validate a gaze-based training system for endoscopic kidney stone surgery. The project aims to create an eye gaze-based guidance system that can improve surgeon training and stone visualization during endoscopic kidney stone procedures, which currently...

This federal Project Grant award of $294,729 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program will fund the development of a versatile and compact telerobot with haptic feedback and physics-informed simulation for safety-enhanced neurovascular interventions. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Developing full actuation, coordinated control...