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W. Marriott hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana. The funds would be used by the NCIMS in the following manner: Travel Support for State Delegates: $25,000 would be used to support travel expenses for the state voting delegates who would not otherwise be able to attend the conference. Conference Services: $25,000 would be used to help offset conference expenses for items that are allowable under the grant. These expenses include rental of audio visual equipment that is needed to facilitate ease of viewing computerized projection of work documents and hearing critical debate on the proposals being considered by the members of the Committees, Councils, voting state delegates, FDA officials, and conference attendees. Funds will also be used to record conference proceedings and debate during voting on proposals by a hired court reporter. Remaining funds will be used towards printing of the conference program and materials. Due to extraordinary circumstances of the COVID pandemic the NCIMS conference that would have been held in 2021 was postponed until 2022. This left the NCIMS with a dire shortfall of operating income during 2021 and into 2022. Therefore, applying funds from scientific conference grant to help offset conference service and expenses will provide need revenue for continued future operation of the NCIMS. It is also anticipated that due to COVID that conference registration will be considerably lower than previous years generating less income to cover conference expenses.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "8466", "attributes": { "award_id": "1R13FD007388-01", "title": "NCIMS Pre-Conference Planning Funding Support Request", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 24230, "first_name": "Cynthia", "last_name": "Wise", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-07-01", "end_date": "2023-06-30", "award_amount": 50000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 22681, "first_name": "Cary", "last_name": "Frye", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1523, "ror": "", "name": "NATL CONF ON INTERSTATE MILK SHIPMENTS", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "VA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1523, "ror": "", "name": "NATL CONF ON INTERSTATE MILK SHIPMENTS", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "VA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "2021 NCIMS Project Summary The National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) is a non-profit educational organization composed of state, local and federal regulatory officials responsible for milk sanitation rating and enforcement of Grade A milk sanitation laws, dairy industry personnel, academic researchers, advisors, and consumers. Typically, the Conference meets biennially in odd-numbered years, but due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic public health emergency it is postponed from 2021 until April 2022. The primary business of the Conference is to deliberate proposals submitted by individuals from various regulatory agencies and from the dairy industry, who have an interest in ensuring that the dairy products available for sale and consumed throughout the United States are safe. The mission of the NCIMS is “To Assure the Safest Possible Milk Supply for All the People.” The Conference business can only be accomplished with an in-person meeting to allow for robust debate, transparency and input from all interested parties and delegates from each of the fifty states and one United States Trust Territory that participate in the Interstate Milk Shippers program and send a delegate to make final decisions on the various proposals that are submitted. The state delegates and Executive Board approved an action to reschedule the Conference until April 2022 due to ongoing concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to COVID-19 the NCIMS is experiencing financial constraints as the primary source of revenue is from Conference registrations which will not occur until 2022. The NCIMS has and will encounter additional administrative expenses for planning, research, and logistics to ensure the necessary safety constraints and protocols are in place to hold a conference safely and successfully for more than 300 attendees. The grant will allow NCIMS to properly plan and prepare for the Conference that will be held at the J.W. Marriott in Indianapolis, IN in April 2022. Funds from the grant will be used to pay administrative costs, salary of the NCIMS staff that organizes and plans the Conference and travel cost for staff and Officers to inspect conference meeting space and plan and appropriately adapt the Conference operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and communicate these changes to potential Conference attendees.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "2658", "attributes": { "award_id": "1900171", "title": "2020 Vision for Dynamics International Conference", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "ANALYSIS PROGRAM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 7782, "first_name": "Marian", "last_name": "Bocea", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2019-08-01", "end_date": "2020-01-31", "award_amount": 24992, "principal_investigator": { "id": 7785, "first_name": "Boris", "last_name": "Hasselblatt", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 508, "ror": "https://ror.org/05wvpxv85", "name": "Tufts University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 7783, "first_name": "Giovanni", "last_name": "Forni", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 7784, "first_name": "Yakov B", "last_name": "Pesin", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 508, "ror": "https://ror.org/05wvpxv85", "name": "Tufts University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "2020 Vision for Dynamics will be held in the Mathematical Research and Conference Center Bedlewo of the Institute of Mathematics at the Academy of Sciences of Poland from August 11 to 16, 2019. The conference will focus on topics related to elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic dynamical systems and smooth ergodic theory that have seen much progress, but where significant problems vital to the field remain open. Based on forward-looking presentations of recent developments, the conference will set a broad and concrete agenda for further research on several fronts and bring together senior, mid-career and young practitioners for discussions of open problems in these research areas. More information can be found at: https://www.impan.pl/en/activities/banach-center/conferences/19-vision2020\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "490", "attributes": { "award_id": "913691", "title": "EAPSI: Elucidation of Determinants of Coronavirus Cross-Species Transmission", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-06-01", "end_date": "2010-05-31", "award_amount": 5678, "principal_investigator": { "id": 991, "first_name": "Jeffrey E", "last_name": "Teigler", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 268, "ror": "", "name": "Teigler Jeffrey E", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 268, "ror": "", "name": "Teigler Jeffrey E", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "2009 EAPSI Fellowship - CHINAThis award supports a U.S. graduate student to conduct an individual research project at one of seven locations in East Asia and the Pacific region. The research project will provide the student with a first-hand mentored research experience, an introduction to science and science policy infrastructure, and an orientation to the culture and language of the location. The primary goals of the East Asia Summer Institute program are to expose students to science and engineering in the context of a research laboratory, and to initiate early-career professional relationships that will foster research collaborations with foreign counterparts in the future.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5177", "attributes": { "award_id": "0913691", "title": "EAPSI: Elucidation of Determinants of Coronavirus Cross-Species Transmission", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EAPSI" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-06-01", "end_date": "2010-05-31", "award_amount": 5678, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18368, "first_name": "Jeffrey", "last_name": "Teigler", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 268, "ror": "", "name": "Teigler Jeffrey E", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 268, "ror": "", "name": "Teigler Jeffrey E", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "2009 EAPSI Fellowship - CHINA\n\nThis award supports a U.S. graduate student to conduct an individual research project at one of seven locations in East Asia and the Pacific region. The research project will provide the student with a first-hand mentored research experience, an introduction to science and science policy infrastructure, and an orientation to the culture and language of the location. The primary goals of the East Asia Summer Institute program are to expose students to science and engineering in the context of a research laboratory, and to initiate early-career professional relationships that will foster research collaborations with foreign counterparts in the future.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14867", "attributes": { "award_id": "1OT2OD037640-01", "title": "All of Us Southern Network v.2.0", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "NIH Office of the Director" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 31553, "first_name": "Nicole", "last_name": "McNeil Ford", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2024-07-02", "end_date": "2025-06-30", "award_amount": 3200000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 31554, "first_name": "MONA N.", "last_name": "FOUAD", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 31555, "first_name": "BRUCE R", "last_name": "KORF", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 31556, "first_name": "Cora E", "last_name": "Lewis", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 612, "ror": "https://ror.org/008s83205", "name": "University of Alabama at Birmingham", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "2. Abstract The All of Us Southern Network (AoUSN) has been enrolling in the All of Us Research Program since 2018. It consists of sites in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, led by a team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The Network motivated by the idea that All of Us represents a unique opportunity to ensure that advances in precision medicine will benefit all people, and that there are large populations in our region who have been historically under\u0002represented in biomedical research. Our participating sites have extensive experience in earning trust and engaging individuals throughout the region, and we are well positioned to ensure that they are included in the All of Us Research Program. In addition to UAB, participating sites include UAB branch campuses in Huntsville, Selma, and Montgomery, AL; Cooper Green Mercy Health Services Authority in Birmingham; University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; University of South Alabama in Mobile; University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS; Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) and Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Two of these sites, UAB, and LSUHSC, are also active in the Nutrition for Precision Health program. Dr. Stephen Sodeke from Tuskegee University serves as a Bioethics Consultant. The AoUSN has been a leader nationally in enrollment of individuals under\u0002represented in biomedical research, especially in terms of race, geography, and income. We were highly successful in enrollments pre-COVID-19, though it took some time for the Network to recover full capacity when enrollments resumed. The AoUSN is currently functioning in an extension phase from July 2023 - February 2024. During this time, it has consistently exceeded recruitment goals, reflecting in part the initiation of multiple innovations that will continue to expand through the funding period of the new OTA. These include: inpatient enrollment at UAB and several collaborating sites; establishment of a new site affiliated with UAB in Dothan, AL; opening “pop-up” enrollment sites throughout the region; use of several mobile clinical research units to reach participants in rural areas; use of Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) to facilitate retention; development of a relationship with Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham, AL to engage and enroll persons with disabilities. We expect to continue and expand upon these innovations in the next five years. Inpatient enrollment has proved to be especially productive and efficient in terms of staff resources and will be expanded at UAB and at partner sites that have inpatient units. Our experience in setting up a new site in Dothan, AL prepares us to establish additional sites in larger cities in our region. We currently have four mobile units, including one exclusively dedicated to All of Us, and have another on order that will be dedicated to enrollment in rural areas of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. We have a new engagement lead (due to the untimely death of Dr. Shauntice Allen, our former Engagement Lead), Dr. Dina Avery, who has extensive connections with community leaders in our region and will work in an integrated manner with our outreach and enrollment teams to facilitate our ability to enroll participants in new areas. We have several active pilots intended to improve our ability to retain participants, including use of retention navigators and providing financial incentives for retention. Each of the AoUSN sites is prepared to enroll children (including four with affiliated dedicated children’s hospitals) and will support participant reassessments once these components are launched. In conclusion, the AoUSN remains committed to the principles of the All of Us Research Program, and especially its goal of partnering with diverse communities to ensure broad inclusion in the program. Precision medicine is a major theme in UAB and our affiliated institutions, and we see All of Us as a key opportunity to engage individuals from under-served communities to ensure that the benefits of precision medicine are widely available in our community.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14641", "attributes": { "award_id": "1IK2RX004764-01A1", "title": "Cognitive rehabilitation to improve functioning in Veterans following COVID-19", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2024-04-01", "end_date": "2029-03-31", "award_amount": null, "principal_investigator": { "id": 31341, "first_name": "TARA", "last_name": "AUSTIN", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2485, "ror": "https://ror.org/00znqwq11", "name": "VA San Diego Healthcare System", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "2-8% of the US population report “long COVID” symptoms – including “brain fog,” thinking difficulties, memory problems, and psychiatric symptoms such as sleep disturbance, anxiety, and depression. Rates of post- COVID-19 symptoms are nearly double in the Veteran population. These cognitive symptoms contribute to functional impairments, reduced quality of life, poorer self-reported health status, psychological distress, delayed return to work, new onset disability, reduced community integration, and increased healthcare utilization. One promising treatment to improve both everyday functioning and cognition secondary to post- COVID-19 symptoms is Compensatory Cognitive Training (CCT). Previous studies have found that CCT is feasible, acceptable, and efficacious in Veteran populations with multiple sources of cognitive dysfunction. The proposed CDA provides a golden opportunity to evaluate CCT for Veterans with prolonged COVID-19 symptoms (CCT-C), compared with a robust control condition, Holistic Cognitive Education (HCE). The project closely aligns with current RR&D priorities, by “examining COVID-19-specific rehabilitation interventions and responses to treatment” and by addressing “late or delayed effects of secondary conditions related to COVID- 19 infections on impairment and disability.” Specific aims are 1) to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial of remote CCT-C with 70 Veterans (35 CCT-C, 35 HCE) with post-COVID-19 cognitive symptoms to examine feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy; 2) to examine the preliminary efficacy of CCT-C in this population on overall functioning, as measured by the World Health Organization’s Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0), performance-based measures of functional capacity, and secondary outcomes (cognitive performance, quality of life, self-reported cognitive problems, psychiatric symptoms, sleep disturbance, and engagement in work/community activities); and 3) to explore moderators of outcome (e.g., age, initial COVID- 19 severity, baseline cognitive functioning, presence of PTSD/mTBI history; biomarkers related to COVID-19 infection). The candidate, Dr. Tara Austin, is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The overarching objective of Dr. Austin’s Career Development Award–2 (CDA-2) research plan is to build on her previous clinical and research experience in interventional neuropsychology and establish her research career focused on cognitive rehabilitation treatments for Veterans. Specifically, her training plan has been designed to develop expertise in adapting cognitive rehabilitation treatments for novel populations exposed to a range of chemical, physical, environmental, and infectious hazards, including exposure to novel infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. Her proposed training includes training in cognitive rehabilitation (Dr. Twamley), clinical trial methodology (Drs. Twamley and Thomas), cognitive and functional outcomes (Drs. Twamley, Ford, and Wynn), biomarkers associated with neuroinflammation (Drs. Ford and Pulliam), and advanced statistical techniques (Dr. Thomas). 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With the shutdown of the PIs laboratory due to the COVID19 pandemic, all members of the group were forced to work from home. I did not tell students to stop charging hours to the grant. Ceasing pay and suspending work altogether would have placed the minority students in the lab in a very precarious position. In addition, this came at a crucial moment in the project, where final fabrication and experiments were to take place. This was budgeted and planned to occur Spring/Summer 2020. Due to the shutdown, we are essentially three months of payroll short from completing the project. In the supplemental aim, we will build and test graphene nanogap devices. We will use a novel planar approach that we have developed under the parent R21 award. 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Social isolation has detrimental effects on health as evidenced by the fact that 48.7% of nursing home residents have an active depression diagnosis. Loneliness is associated with increased depressive symptoms, risk for coronary heart disease and stroke, and is a key predictor of depression, health deterioration, and death in older adults. Greater loneliness is associated with lower cognitive function. Prior to COVID-19, 50.4% of nursing home residents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease related dementias. Socialization has been shown to reduce chronic disease, depression, slow down cognitive decline, and to improve quality of life in older adults. At the same time that the older population is growing rapidly in the U.S., there is a growing shortage in caregivers and staff in nursing homes and the staff are overworked. Recent attempts to address the loneliness problem by providing tablets to nursing homes through the Care Act have caused the already understaffed nursing homes’ extra work since residents cannot figure out how to use the tablets on their own. Scheduling staff for setting up the tablets and facilitating communication for the residents at their rooms when families want to virtually meet, present another challenge. The proposed project aims to integrate an affordable autonomous navigating telepresence robot with proven web-based scheduling and communications (Zoom) systems and a proven activities platform for seniors. The Vigorous Mind (“VM”) activities platform has been used successfully in dozens of senior living facilities and nursing homes for more than nine years. We will test the feasibility of implementing the integrated system at two nursing homes to address both social isolation and engagement as well as eliminating the need for staff to handle scheduling and to be present with residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias or without in performing the virtual visits. The system will allow families to schedule virtual visits through the nursing homes’ website and the robot will autonomously navigate its way to the resident’s room at the scheduled time. The family member will be seen by the resident on the robot screen and the robot will move into the room where the resident and the family member will socialize and engage in VM activities. At the end of the virtual visit the robot will autonomously navigate its way to the disinfection station, be disinfected and charge its battery. The feasibility test will last three months and we shall collect data about user satisfaction with the sessions, with the technology and resident engagement. We will collect preliminary data on the success of the system in alleviating loneliness and improving mood among older adult residents of a nursing home in preparation for a larger and longer PHASE II SBIR. 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This AccelNet Catalytic level project will facilitate collaborative research, education, and outreach through an International Network of Networks for Well-being In the Built Environment (IN2WIBE). At the core of IN2WIBE is a shared understanding that well-being is strongly dependent on the links between the built environment and the personal, cultural, economic, and social forces that drive health, productivity, satisfaction, and comfort. Research networks on well-being in the built environment exist, however, they are shaped by their institutional, regional, or social contexts and are mostly locally convergent. Well-being in the built environment is a broad research area, and there exist myriad approaches and solutions that emerge from different disciplinary perspectives. These efforts need to be integrated to foster effective, robust, and widely-applicable solutions. IN2WIBE will connect and educate future building scholars on well-being in buildings while informing better building design, construction, operation, and use. This will be achieved through leveraging resources from 34 existing networks and partners in 5 continents (N. America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and Asia), comprising a total of 17 countries. Through strategically designed activities, IN2WIBE will cultivate and foster connections through the development of community consensus. \n\nIN2WIBE provides an opportunity to unite disciplinarily, culturally, and geographically diverse networks around the world. Four objectives of IN2WIBE are to: 1) facilitate new forms of collaborations by integrating disciplines and networks in building and health fields; 2) engage networks at multiple stages and scales, including networks in South Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East; 3) promote innovative human-centric building design and operation strategies that will benefit the larger community of scholars and practitioners; and 4) prepare next generation building professionals with a diverse background. Led by multidisciplinary teams, IN2WIBE will foster collaborative research opportunities by coordinating the networks through a series of focused, cross-disciplinary global activities, including roundtable discussions, scholarly retreats, industry showcases, hackathons, TEDx talks, design charrettes, and research workshops and conferences with focused themes. IN2WIBE is targeted to benefit users by improving productivity, cognition, convenience, comfort, health, and energy conservation. Ultimately, this network of networks will promote awareness of healthy, resilient, and sustainable environments. IN2WIBE outcomes will be disseminated via peer-reviewed publications and international talks. The IN2WIBE team, led by female PIs, will empower future researchers with knowledge in building engineering and science, information science, social science, and public health through an interdisciplinary educational program that includes a student exchange program and a career development roundtable. IN2WIBE will also leverage various outreach activities to facilitate minority student recruitment and retention and to engage existing K-12 education and community outreaching programs.\n\nThe Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program is designed to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations. The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. This project is co-funded by the Environmental Sustainability (ENG/CBET) program.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1384, "pages": 1424, "count": 14236 } } }