Project Grant R44DA041949

This $5.37 million project grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse will fund the development of a context-aware digital adherence intervention called SMARTSTEPS to improve pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence among men who have sex with men with substance use disorder. The grant will support two phases. Phase I will inform the specification of an algorithm that utilizes digital phenotyping data from a smartphone app to anticipate non-adherence based...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $162,827 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison, through the University of Wisconsin System, to develop an "Intelligent Pervasive Augmented Reality Therapy (IPAL)" system for managing opioid use disorder (OUD) and addiction. The 1-year project will integrate complementary psychotherapies like cognitive behavioral therapy and heart rate variability biofeedback with immersive...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded the University of Pittsburgh a 3-year, $350,000 Project Grant to develop an innovative closed-loop brain-computer interface (BCI) system for use in exposure therapy for socially fearful teenagers with depression and anxiety. The proposed technology synchronizes electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring with augmented reality (AR) simulations of social fear scenarios, enabling real-time detection of fearful responses and...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Strength In Peers Inc. received a $640,000 project grant awarded September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2029, under the Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants program (CFDA 93.732), administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Health Professionals. The organization will implement a structured six-month internship program training up to 16 Certified Peer Recovery Specialists (CPRSs) annually across two...

Federal Project Grant Summary Emory University received a $1.15 million Project Grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to implement and rigorously evaluate a Peer Recovery Coach (PRC) program at three high-throughput jails in the Atlanta, Georgia area. The project, titled "JCOIN Phase II Innovation Hub," will adapt an established virtual peer recovery telehealth model (LINCS UP) to the jail setting and...

The National Science Foundation awarded $276,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program to Oneseventeen Media PBC for its SBIR Phase I project titled "An Intelligent Mental Health Care Companion for Kids." The project aims to develop a mobile-accessed system leveraging machine learning and cognitive behavioral therapies to detect and triage symptoms of loneliness, anger, anxiety, and depression in children ages 10-18. The system will utilize chatbots...

STEP-UP Project Grant Summary The University of Pennsylvania received a $1,488,558 Project Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded September 18, 2025, with completion targeted for September 17, 2028. The grant funds STREAMLINING TELEHEALTH FOR EXPANDED PREP UTILIZATION THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS (STEP-UP), a three-year observational hybrid implementation-effectiveness pilot study designed to develop and...

This Project Grant award of $838,966 from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the CFDA 16.560 National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program supports the development and pilot testing of a community-based, peer advocacy intervention for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) whose partners are enrolled in relationship violence intervention programs (RVIPs). The goal is to improve mental health, increase safety behaviors, and empower IPV...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems award provides $600,000 over 3 years (8/1/2023 - 7/31/2026) to Michigan State University to develop an assistive technology framework for improving social skills interventions for children with autism and other developmental disabilities in classroom settings. The key products to be developed include a wearable human interaction tracker (WHET) tag that can quantitatively measure and track interactions...

The Medical University of South Carolina received a $675,129 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), effective April 1, 2026, through January 31, 2031. The grant supports the development and evaluation of COPE-A (Concurrent Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders using Prolonged Exposure, adapted for Adolescents), an integrated, trauma-focused intervention designed to address the critical gap in...