Project Grant R44HD090763

This Project Grant award 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, is funding the development of an innovative portable device to rapidly detect and monitor traumatic brain injury (TBI) biomarkers. The $332,122 award to Hemex Health Inc. aims to create a point-of-care diagnostic platform that can quickly analyze whole blood samples to identify elevated...

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 $1,089,271 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences to implement and evaluate the "COACH: Communities Aligned to Reduce Concussion and Head Impact Exposure in Youth Football" intervention program. The goal of the project is to improve knowledge and skills of youth football coaches in...

This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) aims to develop and implement an evidence-based educational resource to improve the health and function of children with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). The project's key objectives are to (1) partner with an advisory board to identify essential MTBI information and develop a post-MTBI educational resource for children with MTBI and their parents, and (2)...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program will fund research to determine the relationship between repetitive head impacts (RHI), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD), AD-related dementias (ADRD), and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The...

The U.S. Defense Health Agency has awarded a $1,395,898 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to Medicortex Finland LTD for the project titled "POINT-OF-INJURY DIAGNOSIS OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY USING SALIVA". The 2-year grant, effective from June 15, 2024 to June 14, 2026, will fund research to develop a point-of-injury diagnostic tool for traumatic brain injury using saliva samples. This aligns with the program's objective of...

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), aims to characterize reactive balance deficits after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The total award of $607,323 will fund a 5-year research project at the University of Utah to examine how mTBI affects reactive balance during standing, walking, and turning tasks. The study will investigate the ability to...

This federal Project Grant award, with ID R21NS140565, was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The $211,875 award supports research by New York University School of Medicine to study the long-term neuroanatomical consequences of repetitive head impacts in former American football players. The 2-year project aims to leverage data from the...

The Department of Defense Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences awarded $7,298,100 under the National Football League Augmentation of the Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Service Academy Longitudinal Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes Study Integrated Study cooperative agreement. This five-year award through the Uniformed Services University Medical Research Projects program (CFDA #12.750) will support continued longitudinal data collection and analysis for the...

This is a $2,888,616 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program. The purpose of the award is to conduct analytical validation of 7 emerging traumatic brain injury (TBI) biomarkers - UCH-L1, GFAP, NFL, TAU, BD TAU, PTAU-181 and PTAU-231. The project will analyze existing blood samples from over 80 hospitals worldwide...

The National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging awarded a $2,366,184 Project Grant to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital, to support research into the mechanisms of circadian and synaptic dysfunction after repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. The three-year award, made on June 1, 2022 under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), will fund work by Drs. Whalen and Lipton to define how interleukin-1 receptor 1-mediated...