Project Grant R43HL170868

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $347,386 to the University of Illinois to develop a novel wearable watch device for continuous, cuffless blood pressure monitoring. The goal is to create an accurate, inexpensive, and easy-to-use technology to improve management and surveillance of hypertension, a major public health challenge. The project will utilize bioimpedance sensing principles, along with physiological,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $150,000.00 to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to develop a novel cuffless ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) device. The key products and services to be delivered include: Design of an ultra-low-power, millimeter-scale application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) capable of duplex mode ultrasound to enable a...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's John E. Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) provides $211,347 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to develop and scale up a consumer-grade wearable monitoring system to improve outcomes in low-resource settings in Ghana. The project aims to implement a hospital-based continuous patient monitoring system using consumer wearable devices to enhance the triage of...

Ovid BP Systems Inc. received a $713,199 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute on April 15, 2021 to develop a blood pressure monitoring system using video recording on smart cameras. The goal of the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program, CFDA #93.837, is to support heart and vascular research. Under this award, Ovid BP will assess the feasibility of using video-based algorithms to accurately measure blood pressure through...

The National Science Foundation awarded Vena Vitals Inc. a $1 million cooperative agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a wireless, continuous, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring device. The device aims to address the unmet need for real-time blood pressure monitoring of patients undergoing surgery or in critical care by capturing rapid fluctuations with high temporal resolution. Current technologies are limited in accuracy, cost...

Dynocardia Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant to advance development of a novel continuous, cuffless blood pressure monitoring device. Funded through the NSF Engineering Directorate's SBIR program, the award will support Dynocardia's efforts to address motion artifacts and enable accurate, beat-to-beat blood pressure measurements in hospital intensive care and operating room settings. Accurate 24-hour blood pressure monitoring has potential to significantly...

This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) aims to develop and implement a novel testing platform to evaluate the accuracy of wearable photoplethysmography-based blood pressure monitoring devices. The University of Maryland, College Park will construct a bench flow phantom that simulates physiologically relevant blood pressure, blood flow, anatomical, and optical...

This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, is funded under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837). The $2,315,968 award supports a 4-year research project to develop a novel hemodynamic metric called Tissue Perfusion Pressure (TPP) for improved management of circulatory shock in critically ill patients. The key objectives are to investigate the physiology of TPP in preclinical animal...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.865) in the amount of $237,827.00 to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. on December 10, 2024. The grant supports the development of a wearable, wireless near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) device called CNAP-FlexNIRS to enable continuous, non-invasive monitoring of arterial blood pressure in neonates. The project aims to test the device in 20 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients and...

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $375,750 Project Grant (CFDA 93.286 - Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital, to develop and validate a multi-wavelength wearable edema and microcirculation monitor for detecting decompensation in cardiac failure patients. The project aims to build upon the organization's previously...