Project Grant W81XWH1910514

The federal Project Grant award of $707,436.00 from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports research on "Biomarker Signatures of Post-Traumatic Epileptogenesis (PTEgenesis) and Its Treatments" at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. The award, which commenced on May 1, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by April 30, 2027, aims to advance biomedical research and develop innovative medical solutions to...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under CFDA 93.853 "Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders", provides $230,904 to Boston Children's Hospital from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029. The award will support research to identify novel genetic causes of infantile epilepsies and evaluate the impact of genetic diagnosis on patient outcomes and families. Key objectives include applying...

The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $3,099,990 project grant to the Western Institute For Veterans Research under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund the MILITARY INJURIES - UNDERSTANDING POST-TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY (MINUTE): BIOINFORMATICS WITH BIG DATA TO EXAMINE MULTIMODAL PTE BIOMARKERS project from September 30, 2021 through September 29, 2025. The project aims to utilize bioinformatics and big data approaches to examine...

The Department of Defense's (DoD) Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) awarded a $1,009,369 project grant to Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. The grant funds a 3-year research project titled "Probing the Role of Ion Channels as Mediators of Post-Traumatic Epileptogenesis: GIRK Channel Modulation as a Roadmap to Therapy." The research aims to: 1) characterize aberrant neuronal activity patterns in the brain following traumatic brain injury...

The U.S. Defense Health Agency awarded a $860,998 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on the "Neurophysiology of Post-Traumatic Epilepsy: Unraveling Epileptogenesis Signals Biomarkers". The grant, which runs from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, supports advanced biomedical research aimed at transforming healthcare for military service members,...

This Project Grant award of $995,612, provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to establish a near-real time pediatric emergency department (ED) injury surveillance system using natural language processing (NLP) technology. The key objectives are to: 1) Create a novel pediatric injury surveillance data network by applying NLP to the Pediatric...

This federal Project Grant award of $414,305 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 grant will fund research to identify key molecules and pathways underlying the process of epileptogenesis, with the goal of developing therapies to modify disease progression. The research leverages a novel algorithm called MAGIC combined with a large...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,072,500.00 from the Defense Health Agency, under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports research by Tufts University School of Medicine to investigate reducing post-traumatic epilepsy by blocking the MIAT signaling pathway in parvalbumin-positive inhibitory GABAergic interneurons. The award, with a period of performance from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, aims to advance scientific understanding and develop potential...

This federal Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $181,438 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to conduct a prospective longitudinal study on neurocognitive outcomes and recovery trajectory for 180 school-aged pediatric sepsis survivors over 12 months. The key objectives are to evaluate the prevalence of...

This federal Project Grant award of $453,970.00 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 will fund research to determine the effects of intranasal administration of the neurotrophic growth factor heparin-binding epidermal growth factor (HB-EGF) on brain glucose metabolism and inflammation following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the developing brain. The...