Project Grant W81XWH2010756

The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a 4-year, $4,778,800 project grant to the University of Virginia (UVA) to conduct the "REACH Intervention for Caregivers of Veterans and Service Members with TBI: Efficacy and Implementation Planning Across the VA Polytrauma System of Care." This grant, funded under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, aims to develop and evaluate the efficacy of the REACH caregiver support intervention for...

The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1.5 million Project Grant to the Western Institute For Veterans Research to support the POSITIONED (PRECISION, STANDARDIZATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL READINESS IN TBI CARE) program. This funding will support the Military Medical Research and Development program's goal of transforming health care for Service Members and the public through innovative medical research solutions for the battlefield. Specifically, the POSITIONED program will conduct research from...

The Defense Health Agency awarded a $183,258 Project Grant titled "LONGITUDINAL MONITORING OF COGNITIVE CHANGES IN OLDER VETERANS USING TELEHEALTH COMPUTERIZED NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT" to the East Bay Institute for Research & Education Inc. in Mather, CA. The grant is funded under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), which supports advanced biomedical research to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the public. The...

This $309,279 Project Grant award, funded by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, supports a research study on traumatic brain injury (TBI) and psychological health conducted by Florida State University. The primary objectives are to adapt the Ohio State University TBI Identification Method and the STAIR-NT intervention for first responders with TBI, analyze the data, and disseminate the study findings. Key sub-award activities...

The Department of Defense, through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), awarded a $2,449,123 project grant to the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, Inc. (NCIRE) to conduct the "TBI Rehabilitation and Activation in Veterans (TRAIN-VETS)" research project. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will fund a 4-year study to develop and evaluate innovative rehabilitation approaches for improving outcomes for veterans with traumatic...

Summary: VR-CARES Federal Project Grant Award Rendever, Inc. received a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I grant of $349,333 from the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), effective May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2027. The project, titled "VR-CARES: Feasibility of Virtual Reality for Caregiver Assembly, Relief, Empowerment, and Support," develops and tests a novel virtual reality (VR) platform designed to address critical challenges...

This federal Project Grant award for $1,607,403.00, provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports a longitudinal study on monitoring cognitive changes in older veterans using telehealth-based computerized neuropsychological assessments. The award was granted to the East Bay Institute for Research & Education Inc., a non-profit organization in Mather, California, to conduct this 3-year research project from March 1,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), will support research examining the impact of stressful and traumatic experiences on the well-being of unpaid family caregivers of individuals living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The $774,120 award to Wake Forest University Health Sciences will fund a 5-year study to investigate how exposure to potentially traumatic events, both prior to and during...

Summary Massachusetts General Hospital received a $722,746 Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), awarded February 15, 2026, with completion targeted for January 31, 2031. The grant funds the COMA Family Program (COMA-F), a multi-site clinical trial designed to test the efficacy of a resilience-based intervention addressing emotional distress in caregivers of patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI) who are comatose or...

This $997,008 Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports a 3-year research project by the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, Inc. (NCIRE) to investigate risk and resilience factors for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) among American Indian and Alaskan Native veterans. The research aims to inform prevention strategies for this population. NCIRE is a...