This Project Grant award of $141,288 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports the University of Michigan's Training Program in Organogenesis. The overarching goal of this 5-year program is to provide a multidisciplinary training experience that combines career development and professional activities with interdisciplinary research on organ formation, maintenance, and...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a 5-year, $575,303 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to support the Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology (CMP) Training Program. This program provides comprehensive training in the pharmacological sciences to graduate students, covering topics such as rigor and reproducibility, drug discovery, and quantitative analysis. The...
This $158,216 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports a longitudinal study titled "Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Incarceration and Infant and Toddler Health and Development." The research, conducted by the President and Fellows of Harvard College through its Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, aims to analyze the impact of prenatal...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will provide the trainee, a PhD student in epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with mentored training to become a perinatal epidemiologist with expertise in health policy and health services research. The primary goals of the $102,168 award, with a performance period...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund a research study conducted by Dr. Angelique Boutzoukas at Duke University. The $154,862 award, effective January 3, 2025 through December 31, 2029, will support Dr. Boutzoukas' work to characterize the pharmacokinetics of short-course ampicillin in preterm infants and evaluate the safety and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, is intended to develop advanced pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) models to optimize drug dosing for critically ill children, particularly those with heart disease. The $152,700 award will fund research conducted by Dr. Thompson at Duke University to: 1) identify the optimal population PK model for the drug...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $170,639 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). The grant, effective September 1, 2024 through May 31, 2028, will support a research project to: Characterize the barriers to pediatric dolutegravir combination therapy adherence, and Estimate per-protocol effects of treatment failure by 96 weeks...
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) supports research to develop a patient selection framework for early life interventions targeting preterm infant health outcomes. The award of $178,000.00 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute will leverage a comprehensive preterm infant registry to create perinatal phenotypes that explain...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), provides $445,000.00 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to develop technologies to delineate haplotype-resolved, full-length transcriptomes in bulk tissues and single cells, characterize transcript isoforms of haploinsufficient genes to discover novel therapeutic targets, and establish a program for RNA-guided...
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) supports research to examine the effects of government-led cash transfer programs on health outcomes among women and young children in low- and middle-income countries. Using data from 37 countries, the $325,000 award will fund a longitudinal study to assess the impact of these programs on mortality rates, with a...
This federal Project Grant award of $208,150 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports a collaborative postdoctoral training program in clinical pharmacology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Thomas Jefferson University (TJU). The 5-year program aims to train the next generation of drug development scientists, providing a comprehensive curriculum of didactic coursework, mentored research, and career development opportunities across areas such as mechanism-based discovery, pharmacometrics, experimental medicine, and drug safety. The program is designed for postdoctoral fellows, including MDs, MD-PhDs, PharmDs, and PhDs, to prepare them for research careers in academia, industry, or regulatory agencies. Through this award, the program will continue to offer two dedicated pediatric and maternal-fetal clinical pharmacology training slots, building upon its exemplary record of recruiting diverse trainees who have achieved success in their respective fields.