Pandemic-era NIH grants (FY2019-2024) covering coronavirus, gain-of-function research, mRNA vaccines, biosafety, and related funding flows. Metadata + abstracts from NIH RePORTER.
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Marie-Anne Sanon Rosemberg · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $79,176 — PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: The 400,000 nail salon workers (NSW) in the U.S.—primarily immigrant women in their prime reproductive years—are part of a $10 billion small business industry that is understudied and hard-to-reach. NSWs are emblematic of low-wage, underinsured, immigrant women in the workf…
Steven Bacchus Zeliadt · VA PUGET SOUND HEALTHCARE SYSTEM · 2024 — Background: There is a paucity of reliable, household-level data on evictions. We have no data on how many Veterans are evicted each year, whether they regain housing or not after eviction, or the costs to VA of rehousing evicted Veterans and treating eviction-related health conditions. If we knew t…
Bonnie E Shook-Sa · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2024 · $169,811 — PROJECT SUMMARY Medical and behavioral interventions are critical for preventing the spread of infectious diseases. But there are statistical challenges when estimating causal effects for such interventions. Most statistical methods assume the treatment of one individual does not affect outcomes of …
P. Worth Longest · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $733,241 — Hypoxemia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) arising from direct lung injury are associated with a dysfunctional lung surfactant system; however, large clinical trials of surfactant replacement therapy have been unsuccessful in this population. The method employed for surfactant delivery…
Kelly Doran · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2024 · $754,108
Zachary Butzin-Dozier · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · 2024 · $134,923 — Modified Project Summary/Abstract Section Candidate: I am an epidemiologist in the Division of Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, and I completed my Ph.D. in Epidemiology in August 2022 at UC Berkeley. Since my graduation, I have worked with the Center f…
Aresha Maree Martinez-Cardoso · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · 2024 · $126,486 — Abstract The United States ranks among the worst of all developed countries in perinatal health, including high rates of maternal and infant mortality and pervasive disparities among women who are racial/ethnic minorities, have lower SES, and reside in rural regions. Perinatal outcomes are influence…
Maria Gomes-Solecki · IMMUNO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · 2024 · $999,881 — ABSTRACT We propose to develop intranasal, parainfluenza 5 (PIV5) viral-vector delivered vaccines against human Lyme disease (LD) to be administered using a prime-boost schedule, for the US market. A recent new estimate of LD by the CDC places the new number at 476,000 annual cases, up from 329,000 …
Julie H Coleman · CELDARA MEDICAL, LLC · 2024 · $162,000 — While the majority of biomedical scientists end up in professions outside of academia, most receive little-to-no training in preparation for this transition. Here, we seek to establish a comprehensive training program to prepare scientists for their actual careers: to meet the nation’s greatest biom…
PHU V. TRAN · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · 2024 · $15,250 — ABSTRACT The fundamental concept of Developmental Origins of Health and Diseases (DOHaD), which posits that early- life events or exposures determine the health outcomes across the life span, has been well represented by the US DOHaD Society exemplified by its annual national meeting since its incep…
Amy C. Gross · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · 2024 · $357,024 — Project Summary/Abstract Neurobehavioral characteristics have the potential to predict initial weight loss and weight loss maintenance in response to various treatment approaches in adolescents with obesity. However, prior research is limited by heavy reliance on cross-sectional analyses and a focus…
Aaron Samuel Brewster · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · 2024 · $1,204,713 — Project Summary/Abstract X-ray crystallography is a powerful tool for determining the atomic positions of proteins, used by researchers at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers. Typically, the crystal is exposed to X-rays, which diffract and are collected on a detector to create diffraction pa…
Chella Kamarajan · SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER · 2024 · $507,544 — This COGA (Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism) spinoff application aims to understand structural/functional features in key brain networks (Default Mode Network (DMN), Executive Control Network (ECN), Reward/Salience Network (RSN)) underlying the critical transition from regular drink…
Mirella Salvatore · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · 2024 · $296,625 — ABSTRACT One of the biggest challenges for the development of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines and therapeutics is the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with immune-escape or resistance mutations. Multiple evidence points to the chronic infection of immunocompromised hosts, especially ind…
Shivani A Patel · EMORY UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $290,492 — PROJECT SUMMARY RELEVANCE: The COVID-19 pandemic upended life in the United States through social distancing policies, such as remote work mandates, to halt the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Weight gain and changes in physical activity, dietary intake, and other health behaviors related to c…
MICHAEL SEAN POLLARD · RAND CORPORATION · 2024 · $637,163 — PROJECT SUMMARY This project will significantly advance understanding of the longitudinal links between social connection, alcohol, cannabis, and other drug (AOD) use through the analysis of novel longitudinal data that includes a multidimensional assessment of social connection over eight consecut…
Lorenzo Pasquini · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2024 · $56,706 — Parent Project Summary Emotions are central to human functioning, guiding thought and action from the earliest to the latest days of life1–3. Emotional experiences change over the adult life span, with older adults shifting their motivational goals towards optimizing emotional regulation and reporti…
CARL Francis NATHAN · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · 2024 · $211,875 — ABSTRACT Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) was the world’s single leading cause of death from infection before COVID- 19. Direct-acting antimycobacterial regimens are long, often toxic and plagued by emergence of drug resistance. Adjunctive therapies could potentially speed the cure of tuberculosis b…
Sangeeta Gupta · DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $43,301 — Interdisciplinary Health Equity Research (IHER) Center Summary The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on our nation’s stark disparities in health and the disproportional burden of disease related to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Delaware is an ideal state for a health disparities-focuse…
Alida M Bouris · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · 2024 · $691,176 — We will conduct a Hybrid Type II effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial of a Case Management Dyad (CM2) intervention, an evidence-based triadic social work intervention that uses a case manager dyad to engage younger Black sexual minority men (YBSMM) aged 18-35 in economic stabilit…