Project Grant W81XWH2110794

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $1,957,972 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to Auburn University to develop and pilot test an innovative virtual treatment program called "Promoting Resilience to Improve Disordered Eating (PRIDE)." The PRIDE program aims to target identity-related stress processes, such as internalized stigma and coping self-efficacy, that contribute to the elevated risk of eating disorders among sexual...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) is providing $522,737.71 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct a multi-year research project titled "Towards an Etiological Model of Adolescent Eating Disorders through Neuroimaging, Genetics, and Behavior." The key objectives of this project are to: Identify behavioral and neuroimaging-derived correlates of eating disorders...

This $2.9 million Defense Health Agency project grant funds research on suicide prevention among military personnel and veterans. The grant supports a multi-site randomized clinical trial through September 2026 to evaluate the efficacy of Written Exposure Therapy for Suicide Prevention compared to treatment as usual. Researchers at Boston University and partner institutions University of Colorado Denver and University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio aim to reduce suicidal thoughts and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will provide $563,670 to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio to conduct a prospective study on the mental and cardiometabolic health impacts of chronic binge eating disorder (BED) in Hispanic/Latina older women living with food insecurity. The study aims to: Determine the prospective impact of chronic BED on cardiometabolic health, sarcopenic obesity, menopause quality of life,...

The Defense Health Agency awarded a $4.23 million Project Grant to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.420) to assess eating disorder and comorbidity risk and resilience in a nationally representative sample of recent military enlistees from April 15, 2023 to April 14, 2027. The University of Kansas will lead the research effort to test the performance of a new eating disorder assessment measure in...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants aims to study avoidance learning in individuals with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). The $874,625 award to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will support a 2-year study examining instrumental learning strategies to avoid harm, and how this relates to eating disorder symptoms and associated neural mechanisms....

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) is for the "Building Healthy Eating and Self-Esteem Together for University Students (BEST-U): A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an mHealth Intervention for Binge-Spectrum Disorders" program. The $249,521 award to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. will fund a 3-year pilot randomized controlled trial to evaluate the...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $450,488 project grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to characterize the acute biobehavioral response to exercise among individuals with restrictive eating disorders (ED). The 2-year project aims to 1) evaluate variability in reward and threat response to exercise, 2) develop tasks to assess exercise-related reward and threat processes, and 3) test hypotheses that...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency, under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), provides $1,605,000.00 to Baylor College of Medicine to conduct research on genetically dissecting neural circuits underlying anorexia nervosa. The 4-year project, running from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2027, aims to advance scientific understanding of the neurological mechanisms driving this complex eating disorder. As a...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,682,938.00, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to optimize an automated chatbot to deliver efficient and scalable treatment for eating disorders (EDs). The key products and services to be delivered include: Building on prior research, the project will test four candidate ED treatment components (targeting overevaluation of weight/shape, dietary restraint, emotion...