Project Grant R43HD107740

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $943,819 to Neocare Innovations, Inc. to develop an integrated biomedical platform and custom algorithm to optimize feeding protocols for preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The project aims to create a device that uses big data on breathing patterns to quantify the synchronization of breathing and swallowing in...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $237,827 to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. to develop a wearable, non-invasive optical device for continuous blood pressure monitoring in neonates. The device, called CNAP-FlexNIRS, will use near-infrared spectroscopy and photoplethysmography to collect high-resolution pulsatile waveforms and...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a $1,000,001 Project Grant to Purdue University under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.865). The grant funds a 2-year research project to develop and deploy a novel telehealth-based assessment protocol called PANDABOX to collect comprehensive clinical, behavioral, and electrophysiological data on the early development of young...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,990 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Project Grant to CB Enterprises of Santa Monica, California under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant funds the development of an integrated biomedical platform and custom algorithm to optimize feeding protocols for preterm infants. The platform utilizes sensors and data analytics to precisely measure infant breathing patterns during feeding, providing...

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $630,861 Project Grant to the University of Virginia on August 11, 2025 to develop a novel physiological biomarker (physiomarker) for early and equitable prediction of cerebral palsy (CP) in infants. The 5-year project (CFDA# 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to use continuous vital sign monitoring data from neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to analyze...

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.865) provides $313,180.00 to Amahealth LLC to develop an AI-powered method for accurately predicting the onset of labor in pregnant women. The 8-month project aims to enhance the team's existing work by using deep learning on maternal physiological data from wearable sensors to...

This Project Grant award of $150,000.00, provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), aims to develop a novel, non-invasive active sound sensing approach with artificial intelligence (AI)-based analysis of breathing sounds integrated on a smart pacifier device for real-time, continuous respiratory monitoring, particularly for neonates. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) Modeling a new...

This Project Grant award of $371,021 from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) supports the development of a continuous respiratory monitoring platform to better classify apnea of prematurity (AOP) in premature newborns. The primary products to be delivered are: 1) a multimodal system and machine learning model to accurately detect and classify the major types of AOP (central, obstructive, and mixed); and 2) an optimized prototype system...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $318,724 to Pendar Technologies LLC to develop and test an optical probe for monitoring peripheral tissue oxygenation in critically ill neonates. The award will fund improvements to the company's resonance Raman spectroscopy-based sensor technology, which can measure tissue oxygen saturation...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a 5-year, $714,638 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the CAARE (Caregivers' Aid to Accelerate Recovery after Pediatric Emergencies) intervention. CAARE is a technology-assisted, stepped care program that provides emotional and behavioral...