This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $958,629, was awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The funding will support the real-world adoption of an innovative digital health therapeutic called KIOS, which uses nonlinear control theory to track multiple symptoms (e.g., craving, mood, pain) and deliver personalized, evidence-based intervention strategies to patients with opioid use disorder...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), awarded a $591,752 Project Grant to Oprems LLC to develop a digital platform for electronic screening to identify the risk of opioid misuse and overdose. The project aims to integrate the tools and processes from Oprems' existing paper-based "ONE (Opioid and Naloxone Education)" program into a tablet-based digital platform. This digital platform will be used to consistently...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $608,046 to Evidation Health, Inc. to develop a digital product called "Research and Engagement on Substance Use Harnessing Awareness and Personalized Education (RESHAPE)". The objective is to create a comprehensive digital experience to improve well-being and self-efficacy for individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) and...
This Project Grant award of $1,607,146.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) supports the development of a technology-based intervention to encourage drug checking, distribution of harm reduction supplies, and linkage to services for people who use drugs. The project, titled "Together Against Overdose: Community Developed Technology to Encourage Drug Checking, Distribution of Harm Reduction Supplies, and...
This Project Grant award of $591,032 was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to Square2 Systems Inc. in Hanover, NH. The funding will support the development of the "COGITO" platform, a turnkey solution for rapidly developing, evaluating, deploying, and scaling digital therapeutics for the prevention, treatment, and management of substance use disorders and other behavioral health conditions. The...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $306,528 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to Addinex Technologies, Inc. The grant will fund the development of a medication adherence and monitoring system to support decentralized clinical trials for substance use disorder (SUD). The project aims to adapt Addinex's existing medication management system to provide researchers running SUD clinical trials with a tool for at-home dispensing that...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) provides $844,475 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to test a bundled intervention aimed at increasing treatment uptake for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and nonfatal opioid overdoses after emergency department (ED) discharge. The proposed intervention combines telehealth, peer support, buprenorphine prescribing, and linkage to...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $182,249, was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The grant will fund a study titled "Implementation of a Digitally Enhanced Intervention to Retain Pregnant and Postpartum People with Opioid Use Disorder in Buprenorphine Treatment" at the Medical University of South Carolina. The overall objective is to evaluate the feasibility and implementation of the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $304,215 to Carina Medical LLC to develop and validate a novel software platform for decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) in substance use disorder (SUD). The project aims to leverage large language models (LLMs) to automate data collection and improve efficiency and accuracy for SUD DCTs. Key objectives include developing the software...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $264,000 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to Innovation Research And Training, Inc. (IRT), a woman-owned small business research organization based in Durham, North Carolina. The purpose of this 3-year project, beginning September 2024, is to evaluate the "Substance of Change: Building Assets in Mentees Affected by Substance Misuse" (SOC), an interactive, multimedia, web-based,...