Grants


Texas SARS-CoV-2 Variant Sequencing Study

Total: $14,124,185.00. Co-Investigator (PI: Boerwinkle). Avg %effort: 15%


The PHIT Workforce Development Program: Creating a diverse and inclusive health information technology (IT) workforce in Texas

Total: $9,213,935.00. Co-Investigator (PI: Boerwinkle). Avg %effort: 10%

 

Texas Coronavirus Antibody Response Surveillance

The main objective is to understand person, place, time, disparities and trends of COVID-19 to inform public health action and policy.

Total: $8,409,755. Co-Investigator (PI: Boerwinkle). Avg %effort: 25%

 

Assistance, Addressing Social Needs of High-Risk Patients through Screening and Navigation to Community Social Service Organizations (Track 2)

The UTHealth School of Public Health team proposes to address the social needs in the ACH model, Assistance. In partnership with our UT Physicians, Memorial Hermann Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital, we seek to apply an innovative asynchronous platform for screening and navigation of patients.

Total: $2,559,327. Co-Investigator (PI: Highfield). Avg %effort: 2020-2022: 15%, 2022-present: 2%

 

Leveraging FITBIR Data to Improve Clinical Practice of Severe TBI

This project aims to assess the univariate association of hourly multimodal physiological variables with long-term neurological outcomes; to develop and validate a multivariable predictive model for long-term neurological outcomes; to develop and validate a multivariable predictive model of long-term neurological outcomes using high-frequency real time multimodal physiological data; and to assess the association between the ways ICP is treated and long-term neurological outcomes.  

Total: $565,720.00. Co-Investigator (PI: Yamal). Avg %effort: 2020-2022: 15%, 2022-present: 10%

 

CTSA: RADX Phase II (COVID)

This study will leverage longstanding academic-community engaged partnership to examine SARS-CoV-2 infection patterns and identify dynamic disease hotspots and testing deserts in racially diverse neighborhoods of three Texas regions (Houston/Harris County, South Texas and Northeast Texas) and evaluate the rapid adaptation and deployment of multilevel intervention strategies to SARS-CoV-2 testing in vulnerable populations.

Total: $3,204,351. Co-Investigator (PI: Fernandez). Avg %effort: 2%

 

Community-Based Workforce Development and Mobilization to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Equity in Texas. The goal is to increase COVID-19 vaccinations through the development and mobilization of existing community-based health and outreach workforces in the state of Texas.

Total: $11,623,660.00 Co-Investigator (PI: Fernandez). Avg %effort: 8%

 

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Confidence (COVAHC) Survey: A Rapid Community Assessment in Texas.

Total: $487,364.00. Co-Investigator (PI: Cuccaro). Avg %effort: 15%

 

COVID-CTSA ECR RADx-UP

This study leverages longstanding academic-community engaged partnership to examine SARS-CoV-2 infection patterns and identify dynamic disease hotspots and testing deserts in racially diverse neighborhoods of three Texas regions (Houston/Harris County, South Texas and Northeast Texas) and evaluates the rapid adaptation and deployment of multilevel intervention strategies to SARS-CoV-2 testing in vulnerable populations.

Total: $4,998,788. Co-Investigator (PI: Fernandez). Avg %effort: 3%

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SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Testing Program for Harris County

The main objective is to enhance COVID-19 testing and understand the epidemiology and dynamics of COVID-19 in our Harris County and the city of Houston.

Total: $16,985,172. Co-Investigator (PI: Boerwinkle). Avg %effort: 20%

 

Rapid Expansion of Existing Framework for Deploying Large-Scale COVID-19 RT-PCR Testing Platforms and Distributing Capacities. RADx Tech NIH Grant Sub.

Total: $206,930.00. Co-Investigator (PI: Melissa Valario). Avg %effort: 25%

 

CATCH Healthy Smiles: A cluster-RCT of an elementary school oral health intervention

This grant will allow us to plan for, and test the efficacy of an elementary school-based oral health intervention using a cluster-randomized controlled trial design across children from ethnically-diverse, low-income families in Houston, Texas.

Total: $4,096,889.00. Co-Investigator (PI: Sharma). Avg %effort: 7%

 

Computational Sciences Lab

A project to establish a High Performance Computing Multidisciplinary Research lab. Provides computing services, facilitates multidisciplinary research through collaboration, and trains faculty members and member students. Total: $93,872.02 (PI: Ashraf Yaseen)

 

Development of Javelinas-Server for Predicting Protein Structural Features.

Total: $3,000 (PI: Ashraf Yaseen)

 

Security Engineering: Development of Curriculum and Research for Homeland Security

Security Engineering is a multidisciplinary minor program within the College of Engineering at TAMUK offered in support of preparing engineering and science students for careers in areas related to our nation’s security.

Total: $698,000. Co-Investigator (PI: Selahattin Ozcelik). Avg %effort: 15%

 

Collaborative: TUES: Software Defined Radio Laboratory Platform for Enhancing Undergraduate Communication and Networking Curricula

Evolvable wireless laboratory design and implementation for enhancing undergraduate wireless engineering education in which the team developed and demonstrated lower cost, software defined radio (SDR) based laboratories for undergraduate courses.

Participating institutions: Wright State University (Lead), Miami University Oxford Campus, and Central State University.

Total: $100,000. Role: Co-investigator.