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Tippecanoe County, Ind., funds by Health and Human Services, Department of

Listing $58,597,254.38 in stimulus funds from Health and Human Services, Department of for Tippecanoe

Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.

Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.

Recipient Amount Description Federal Dept./Agency Date
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $14,902,414 National Center for Research Resources, Recovery Act Construction Support The NCRR ARRA C06 program provides an opportunity to build a disease research focused laboratory facility at Purdue University. The proposed 'Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Facility' (MCRF) will co-locate Purdue Center for C... Show more National Institutes of Health 3/31/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $13,084,624 ARRA - Health Information Technology Extension Program Two hundred and twenty-five of Indiana's 6,500 priority-primary care providers have an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system meeting the anticipated 2011 Meaningful Use criteria. As part of Purdue's statewide Extension Program, the proposed India... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,414,318 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 2/08/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $2,660,581 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Program Director/Principal Investigator (Last, First, Middle): Kuhn, Richard J. 2 P01 AI055672-06A1 ABSTRACT The current understanding of alphavirus and flavivirus life cycles at the molecular level is incomplete because we lack a structural foundation fo
This spending item is part of a $3,946,282 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $1,984,388 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A diversity of ideas reflects a diversity of individuals. Highly innovative solutions to emerging U.S. and global human health concerns requires a diverse biomedical workforce comprised of the nation's best minds. National efforts to diversify our biomedi National Institutes of Health 9/30/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $1,322,196 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ The purpose of this project is to develop, apply, and evaluate the culture-centered approach (CCA) to tailoring Comparative Effectiveness Research Summary Guides (CERSGs) published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in order... Show more
This spending item is part of a $1,494,475 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/26/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $1,300,000 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Purdue University and the North Central Nursing Clinics (NCNC) are seeking public entity FQHC New Access Point status. Purdue University, through its School of Nursing (SON) operates the Delphi Clinic, open since 1995, and the Monon C... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 2/26/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $1,197,948 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project will bring to fruition a unique screening technology capable of identifying and tracking the appearance of pathogens or altered or modified organisms that might be used for bioterrorism. The processes to be established include remote detecti
This spending item is part of a $1,309,177 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/09/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $1,077,208 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support SUPPLEMENTAL VITAMIN D AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE: Vitamin D intakes in children do not meet current US Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) recommendations and emerging evidence suggest that a significant number of children, particularly thos
This spending item is part of a $2,220,326 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/15/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $1,049,455 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION: This proposal is directed to solving the problem of the slow rate of generation of high resolution structures of integral membrane proteins that can be useful as drug targets and in medicine. The group combines established expertise in membra National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $968,680 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The ability to identify protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) in complex biological samples is increasingly important in modern biomedical research. This proposal requests funds for the purchase of a ThermoFisher LTQ Orbitrap XL Mass Spectromete National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
BAUER FAMILY RESOURCES $963,201 ARRA - Early Head Start This is an Early Head Start Expansion Grant. This grant awards funds made available to the Head Start program under the ARRA to expand Early Head Start services to 30 infants, toddlers and pregnant women. The Early Head Start program provides family-cente Administration for Children and Families 11/23/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $884,854 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION: Increasing evidence suggests that disturbances in attention and working memory may contribute to the development of specific language impairment (SLI) and stuttering. However, how a detriment in these functions interacts with both linguistic National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $798,058 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION: Current methods for measuring dietary intake in free-living people typically result in an average under- estimation of energy intake (EI) of 10-50%. Data are suggestive, but not conclusive, that EI underreporting is specific to foods and beve
This spending item is part of a $1,113,807 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $787,496 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support No research with a Highly Pathogenic Agent or Select Agent has been performed or is planned to be performed under this grant. Surrogate strains with low pathogenicity will be used to evaluate such agents. Bacillus anthracis, Francisella tularensis and Y
This spending item is part of a $4,023,530 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $752,271 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION: Osteoporosis is a serious health concern of the elderly that is expected to become more prevalent as the US population ages. Like many complex physiological systems, bone biology is dependent on both genetic factors and environmental factors National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $673,748 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support An interdisciplinary team of experimental biologists (Drs. Tyrrell Conway, Barry L. Wanner, and Daoguo Zhou), computational biologists (Drs. Michael R. Gribskov, Daisuke Kihara, and David W. Ussery), and mathematical modelers (Drs. Julio Collado-Vides and
This spending item is part of a $973,748 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
AREA IV AGENCY ON AGING AND COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS, INC. $669,239 ARRA - Community Services Block Grant The funds provide a range of services and activities to assist the needs of low-income individuals including the homeless, migrants and the elderly. Grantees receiving funds under the CSBG program are required to provide services and activities addressing
This spending item is part of a $14,558,833 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/10/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $650,100 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION: Chronic non-bacterial inflammation of the prostate is associated with multiple prostate diseases including chronic prostatitis-chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP-CPPS), benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and prostate cancer. CP-CPPS is disease National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
RIGGS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC. $577,215 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The CIP projects are consistent with the Riggs CHC mission to provide comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services with respect and compassion to the underserved residents in Tippecanoe County. CIP has supp... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $562,164 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Dietary intake provides some of the most valuable insights for mounting intervention programs for prevention. With the growing concern about adolescent overweight and obesity, the need to accurately measure diet becomes imperative. Assessment among adol National Institutes of Health 7/12/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $525,829 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The study of adult health is being transformed by an emerging body of research linking early- life events and experiences with outcomes in adulthood and later life. The overall aim of this research is to build upon epidemiologic models of the life course National Institutes of Health 7/21/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $518,700 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The researcher will develop analytical imaging capabilities with complementary nanoparticle probes to measure the viscoelastic properties of cells and tissues in a noninvasive manner. These capabilities will be applied toward understanding biomechanical f
This spending item is part of a $998,945 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $499,610 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nineteen researchers in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Purdue Cancer Center at Purdue University seek support for advanced live cell imaging with a Zeiss LSM 710 confocal microscope on an inverted micros National Institutes of Health 5/06/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $495,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Purdue Flow Cytometry and Cell Separation Facility of the Bindley Biosciences Center in Discovery Park at Purdue University proposes to purchase a new LEAP (Laser Enabled Analysis and Processing) (Cyntellect, Inc., National Institutes of Health 1/07/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $441,124 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can result in irreversible changes in tissue differentiation and long-term reproductive potential of offspring. These changes are not usually evident until sex National Institutes of Health 6/11/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $419,375 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A hallmark of infection with positive strand RNA viruses is the impressive intracellular membrane rearrangements induced within host cells to facilitate replication of their viral genomes. This project will use a multidisciplinary approach to investigate National Institutes of Health 6/18/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $419,375 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes mild gastroenteritis and more severe systematic infections in both humans and domestic animals. It encodes two specialized type III protein secretion systems that are required for bacterial invasion into epit National Institutes of Health 5/07/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $419,375 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The broad, long-term objectives of this proposal are to develop new metabolomic methodologies to identify pathways involved with metabolism and biosynthesis of endogenous cannabinoid signaling molecules such as anandamide and 2-arachidonylglycerol (2-AG). National Institutes of Health 5/07/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $405,413 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Most bacterial viruses (?bacteriophages? or just ?phage?) are highly efficient in their ability to infect their often very specific bacterial hosts. In general, only one or a few viral particles are necessary to successfully infect one bacterium. As a con
This spending item is part of a $600,412 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $377,219 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The development of new therapeutic drugs against the coronavirus causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a continuing imperative. Following its emergence in Guangdong Province, China, in November 2002, SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) spread to ot
This spending item is part of a $1,517,021 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/26/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $369,050 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chronic Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The HBV X protein (pX) is implicated in HCC pathogenesis by an unknown mechanism. The long term goals of this study are to determine how pX initiates hepatocyte transfo National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $365,884 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support To evaluate the potential for developing an antiviral chemotherapeutic strategy based on the intrinsic defense mechanism of human cells: mutagenesis of single-stranded DNA by cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G (A3G). Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) counte National Institutes of Health 6/04/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $353,102 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University seeks support for an interdisciplinary, pre- doctoral research training program. The proposed institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA) is designed to build upon recent institutional National Institutes of Health 5/19/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $344,400 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Biomarker identification and characterization holds great promise for more precise diagnoses and for tailored therapies. The heterogeneity of human cancers and unmet medical needs in these diseases provides a compellin National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $312,347 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The proposed work focuses on the discovery of reliable biomarkers for the early detection of liver cancer. Patients with hepatitis are particularly susceptible to the development of hepatocellular cancer, although the disease mechanisms are poorly underst
This spending item is part of a $376,147 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/14/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $305,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Basic knowledge of the biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics of Escherichia coli K-12 may be more advanced than for any other organism. This information ranges from environmental physiologic responses down to the atomic level. While many databases National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $299,447 ARRA ? Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals IPFW, College of Health and Human Services, Department of Nursing has a strong and long-standing tradition of meeting the needs of the underserved in Northeastern Indiana. This area has been hit particularly hard by the economic downturn w... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/04/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $288,567 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION: While manganese (Mn) is an essential trace metal, excess exposure due to occupational settings can cause damage to the nervous system. Symptoms of Mn intoxication ('manganism') resemble those in idiopathic Parkinson's disease and usually beco
This spending item is part of a $408,637 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/03/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $265,350 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION: This application is submitted in response to Notice Number NOT-OD-09-058: NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications. In this application, additional funds are sought to expand the scope of rese National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $225,405 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this project is to assess the efficacy of a new treatment for hypophonia (decreased vocal loudness) associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Current speech therapy strategies for hypophonia focus on increasing sound pressure level. It is clea National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $223,084 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses broad Challenge Area (06): Enabling Technologies and specific Challenge Topic, 06-DC-101: Develop Improved Hearing Devices. It is projected that by 2030 there will be over 40 million adults and over 2 million children with heari National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $213,216 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The incorporation of HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PIs) in 1996 into combination therapy regimens with two or more reverse transcriptase inhibitors has been critical to the reduction of AIDS related mortality, improvement of quality of life, and enhancement National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
RIGGS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC. $211,688 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] IDS project addresses the increased need for health services in the Greater Lafayette community and serve uninsured, low-income adults by increasing provider/clinical support and staffing, extending hours of operation, and expanding ex... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $207,077 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The proposed work focuses on the development of advanced methods in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for metabolomics-based studies. The rapidly expanding field of metabolomics provides new information on biological perturbations based on mul National Institutes of Health 8/10/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $167,660 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The zebrafish possesses characteristics that make it an ideal model for genetic studies of vertebrate development and human disease. Although large-scale forward mutagenesis screens have been successfully applied to the zebrafish to identify genes that r National Institutes of Health 5/21/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $162,183 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION: The major goal of this study is to increase our understanding, in terms of structure and dynamics, of the molecular mechanisms that regulate protein function in cellular signal transduction. Signaling pathways comprise numerous protein-protei National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $152,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The broad, long range objective is to understand molecular mechanisms that regulate initiation of skeletal muscle (skm) atrophy. The objective of this application is to explore the role of Merg1a in initiation of skm atrophy. The central hypothesis is tha National Institutes of Health 6/10/2009
IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF INDIANA $150,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology Extension Program Two hundred and twenty-five of Indiana's 6,500 priority-primary care providers have an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system meeting the anticipated 2011 Meaningful Use criteria. As part of Purdue's statewide Extension Program, the proposed India... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,414,318 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 2/08/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $139,710 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Herpesviruses are major pathogens in human populations, causing disease in normal and immuno-compromised individuals. Double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) tailed bacterial viruses and herpesviruses share surprising similarities in capsid assembly and organization.
This spending item is part of a $1,011,610 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $135,175 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Evolutionary forces are known to drive the fixation of locally adaptive genetic variation within populations, and such variation is thought to be involved in the differential response to disease and pharmacological agents observed in human populations. Na National Institutes of Health 1/08/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $130,840 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The dynamic regulation of chromatin serves as an important mechanism for gene regulation. Many studies have demonstrated that posttranslational modification such as acetylation, phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and/or methylation of histones is a mechanis National Institutes of Health 1/20/2010
COMMUNITY AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC $130,127 ARRA - Head Start This award provides for ARRA Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for some operating expenses such as food and utilities, and Quality Improvement Funding consistent with the provisions of Section 640(a)(5) of the Head Start Act for the Head Start and/or Early Administration for Children and Families 6/30/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $126,860 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in woman and the second leading cause of deaths among women worldwide. More than 200,000 individuals will be diagnosed this year and 40,000 will die from it. Although the exact cause of the breast cancer National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $123,668 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support 'Rapid progress in understanding the epidemiology and molecular virology of human caliciviruses (HuCVs) in the past decade has highlighted the importance of HuCVs as a cause of acute gastroenteritis. The recent finding that Noroviruses (NVs) recognize hum
This spending item is part of a $805,496 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $120,294 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Electronic health records are expected to impact health care disparities by allowing better tracking of individuals with chronic conditions in order to provide timely, effective and appropriate interventions. Clinic operations will als... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $110,001 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Medicinal plants produce a wealth of pharmaceutical compounds such as taxol, vincristine, and morphine. Unfortunately, the specialized secondary metabolic pathways leading to such compounds remain poorly understood and progress in elucidating and manipula
This spending item is part of a $6,000,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $101,000 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Need: In response to a United Way of White County's needs assessment, the Monon Nursing Center (MNC) opened to improve healthcare access for county residents. To date the clinic has served over 4,000 patients. Ninety-two percent of fam... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite recent advances in our knowledge of the neural, metabolic and genetic controls of food intake and body weight regulation, the causes of obesity remain elusive and compelling explanations about how changes in bo National Institutes of Health 8/27/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $99,999 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The active form of vitamin D (1,25(OH)2D) regulates events in bone, kidney and intestine to control whole body Ca metabolism and influence the development of osteroporosis. Several lines of evidence suggest that the role of Ca absorption in osteoporosis d National Institutes of Health 1/22/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $98,899 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION: In the elderly, gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are common, often either complicate or are complicated by other diseases, and can be debilitating. Research over the last decade has established that aging-related GI disorders are correlated wi National Institutes of Health 1/04/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $98,640 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The ability to invade non-phagocytic host cells is essential for Salmonella virulence. SipA, SipC, SopB, SopE, and SopE2 are five type III effectors that are known to promote Salmonella invasion by modulating host actin dynamics both directly and indirect National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $97,579 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ The Indiana PROSPECT builds on the nation?s largest, most sophisticated health information exchange that already contains over 2.5 billion structured observations and 38 million text documents for over 10 million patients. This resource is alread... Show more
This spending item is part of a $8,422,410 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $95,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Surgeon General has stated that environmental and lifestyle changes may hold the most promise for the treatment of obesity. Gaps in knowledge about the physiological and behavioral control mechanisms on which dietary and environmental factors operate National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $92,661 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support SUMMARY: Natural Inhibitors of Carcinogenesis (P01 CA48122) is uniquely designed discovery new cancer chemopreventive agents from deep ocean sediment-derived microorganisms, and promote these discoveries to the level of structurally- and mechanistically-
This spending item is part of a $477,847 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/28/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $82,128 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Heterotrimeric G proteins (123) mediate the majority of signaling pathways in mammalian cells. It is long held that G protein function is localized to the plasma membrane. Observation of the spatio-temporal dynamics of G protein localization in living mam
This spending item is part of a $428,676 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
AREA IV AGENCY ON AGING AND COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS, INC. $75,756 ARRA - Head Start ARRA Cost of Livint agjustment (COLA, and Quality Improvement Funding consistant with the provisions of section 640(a)(5) of teh Head Start Act Administration for Children and Families 6/05/2009
AREA IV AGENCY ON AGING AND COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS, INC. $75,756 ARRA - Head Start ARRA Cost of Living Adjustment(COLA), and Quality Improvement Funding consistant with the provisions of Section 640(a)(5)of the Head Start Act Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Regional Directors 7/01/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $75,341 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Obesity has become a major public health problem worldwide such .that in developed countries 10-20% of the adult population is obese. As the rates of obesity rise, so do associated health care costs. Few effective approaches for reducing body weight exist National Institutes of Health 7/29/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $69,066 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Innovative interdisciplinary work is essential to address the most challenging issues in the era of genomic biomedical research. One of these is the evolutionary structure/function of transcriptional regulation. Comparative molecular evolutionary work is National Institutes of Health 8/19/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $66,150 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This early childhood obesity prevention study focuses on low-income and often minority families in a small city who have disproportionately high obesity rates. The interdisciplinary research team with expertise in childhood obesity, family development, he
This spending item is part of a $1,087,998 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
AREA IV AGENCY ON AGING AND COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS, INC. $56,638 Aging Congregate Nutrition Services for States ARRA provided funding for Congregate Nutrition Services. Established in 1972 under the Older Americans Act, the program provides meals to older Americans in congregate facilities such as senior centers, adult day centers, and faith-based settings.
This spending item is part of a $1,303,619 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $53,127 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Performing research in community settings requires both a network of practices and community partners committed to research and a system to faciliate researchers' access to these resources. The Indiana CTSI has established primary and specialty care pract
This spending item is part of a $997,354 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $44,300 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support : To reduce health disparities, national targets were set in Healthy People 2010 to increase the rates of initiation and duration of breast feeding. Although initiation rates are nearly met, the targets set to sustain breastfeeding are far from being met.
This spending item is part of a $91,536 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/01/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $41,414 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Although prior research has demonstrated that relationship characteristics and partner type (e.g., casual vs. primary sexual partner) are associated with HIV risk behavior, the role of relationship dynamics in sexual risk behavior has only begun to be exa
This spending item is part of a $150,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $39,960 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The proposed project continues a programmatic investigation of the neural mechanisms of feeding and body weight regulation. The long-range goal of the project is to provide information needed for treating ingestive disorders, notably obesity, and a variet National Institutes of Health 12/30/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $35,740 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Accumulation of beta-amyloid (Ab) in brain extracellular fluids is the key event in the amyloid cascade leading to neuronal cell damage in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Our preliminary data suggest that the choroid plexus sequesters Ab from th National Institutes of Health 7/14/2009
AREA IV AGENCY ON AGING AND COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS, INC. $32,500 ARRA - Communities Putting Prevention to Work: Chronic Disease Self-Manage In collaboration with the Recovery Act-funded Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) program, this funding will support the deployment of evidence-based chronic disease self-management programs that empower older people... Show more
This spending item is part of a $600,000 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/29/2010
AREA IV AGENCY ON AGING AND COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS, INC. $27,884 Aging Home-Delivered Nutrition Services for States ARRA provided funding for Home-Delivered Nutrition Services. Established in 1978 under the Older Americans Act, the program provides meals to seniors who are homebound.
This spending item is part of a $641,782 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $17,721 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Obesity has become a major public health problem worldwide such .that in developed countries 10-20% of the adult population is obese. As the rates of obesity rise, so do associated health care costs. Few effective approaches for reducing body weight exist National Institutes of Health 7/14/2009