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Multnomah County, Ore., funds by Health and Human Services, Department of

Listing $194,830,554.94 in stimulus funds from Health and Human Services, Department of for Multnomah

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
OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, INC $13,891,820 ARRA - Health Information Technology Extension Program This project is a Cooperative Agreement and will assist providers across the entire state of Oregon with a comprehensive set of technical asssistance services and direct support offerings designed to ensure the successful implementation and mean... Show more
This spending item is part of a $14,597,817 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 2/08/2010
CENTRAL CITY CONCERN $8,950,000 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Central City Concern (CCC) will construct new site to relocate 12th Ave Clinic. CCC assumed operation of the 12th Ave. site in December 2008. This mental health clinic has served the Westside of Portland for over 20 years, and has lea... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 10/30/2009
PROVIDENCE HEALTH SYSTEM-OREGON $7,870,635 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Understanding the consequences of health insurance coverage is central to evaluating proposals to expand or modify health insurance coverage in the U.S. It also has important long-run fiscal implications for Medicare. Yet there is remarkably little convi
This spending item is part of a $11,476,770 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $5,940,561 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Comparative effectiveness research (CER) requires that clinical data be in standard forms allowing multiple, large databases to be efficiently combined, and requires that all of the data be coded so that automated summarization of the data is pos... Show more
This spending item is part of a $8,696,942 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $4,587,768 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ The primary goal of the PATIENT study (Promoting Adherence to Improve Effectiveness of Cardiovascular Disease Therapies) is to increase both initial use and ongoing adherence to three classes of medications used to treat diabetes or cardiovascula... Show more
This spending item is part of a $6,466,949 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/31/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $4,380,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is requesting funds to renovate 5,431 gross square feet of core facilities space that will integrate two important research areas: flow cytometry and genomic analysis. The goal of this initiative is to improve fac National Institutes of Health 3/31/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $3,999,496 National Center for Research Resources, Recovery Act Construction Support Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) seeks funds to construct new outdoor group housing and a clinic and hospital support facility at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC). The proposed outdoor group housing ... Show more National Institutes of Health 10/20/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $3,881,567 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,499,487 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $3,593,550 The purpose of this contract is to create a core group of Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) to focus on a comprehensive approach to comparative effectiveness review (CER) and evidence synthesis. The three main work areas are: develop and refine of to
This spending item is part of a $5,998,777 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/26/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $3,085,812 ARRA - Health Information Technology Professionals in Health Care The overall goal of the OHSU HITECH Curriculum Development Center is to train key high-level and leadership professionals who will enable healthcare and public health organizations to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records... Show more Health and Human Services, Department of 4/02/2010
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $3,000,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--State Territories and Pacific Islands The Tobacco Control Integration Project (TCIP) is a unique approach to reducing tobacco use disparities experienced by Oregonians with fewer resources. In Oregon, people with lower incomes and lower educational attainment smoke at... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2/06/2010
OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, INC $3,000,000 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] There are three goals for this grant as of 9/13/11. The first is the EMR project and will fund the continuation of the work that OCHIN has pioneered in successfully deploying Epic's award-winning Electronic Medical Record (EMR) at Comm... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/01/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $2,998,501 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute (Knight) has a history of running high-impact Phase I clinical trials, including imatinib, calcitriol and most recently MDV-3100. As part of the Phase I studies, Knight investigators have developed pharmacodynamic and mol National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
Providence Health & Services $2,833,320 NCI's Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP) - The network of community hospitals is a complex pilot program whose mission is, through research, to determine ways to bring state of the art cancer care and clinical trials to patients in their local comm
This spending item is part of a $75,135,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/04/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $2,532,177 ARRA - Health Information Technology Professionals in Health Care We aim to establish the OHSU HITECH Curriculum Development Center, one of five Curriculum Development Centers developing content for community colleges in order to rapidly train the health information technology (HIT) workforce under t... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,720,000 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 4/02/2010
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $2,405,227 The purpose of this contract is to create a core group of Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) to focus on a comprehensive approach to comparative effectiveness review (CER) and evidence synthesis. The three main work areas are: develop and refine of to
This spending item is part of a $5,998,777 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/26/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $2,320,075 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] This proposal includes the following seven projects: Project #1 - Westside Health Center (Alteration, Repair & Renovation): This project includes modifying workflow design in the Health Center; medication dispensing equipment using bar... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $2,184,228 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Nine institutions of different sizes, geographical location, and culture have come together to build and implement a Federated National Informatics Network that will allow any investigator across America to discover research resources that are presently i
This spending item is part of a $14,871,333 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,969,722 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chemotherapy and immunotherapy using monoclonal antibodies have been relatively ineffective for the treatment of brain tumors, in part because of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Enhanced dose intensity may be achieved by using osmotic BBB disruption (BBBD) National Institutes of Health 8/07/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $1,969,457 ARRA - Community Health Applied Research Network We will serve as a Central Data Management and Coordinating Center (CDMCC) to support the Community Health Applied Research Network (CHARN). CHARN seeks to build capacity to carry out comparative effectiveness research that will lead to better patient ... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 8/25/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,739,711 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Tens of billions of dollars invested in research are spent ineffectively each year because of correctable research flaws. Comparative effectiveness reviews consistently note problems in the representativeness and quality of many studies. This pro... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,061,276 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 7/01/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,591,661 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose to unite new technologies and new informatics/statistics methods to the broad benefit of the field of translational research. The overall purpose of the three linked supplemental requests is to develop, implement, and demonstrate the feasibilit National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
LEGACY EMANUEL HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER $1,495,687 ARRA Prevention Research Centers Comparative Effectiveness Research Program This proposal will determine the comparative effectiveness of telemedicine to traditional surveillance methods (annual eye exams in eye care providerG??s office) for detecting diabetic eye disease. We will compare their abil... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,003,926 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 7/14/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,470,004 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Age-related cognitive decline (ARCD) exists in a continuum with more severe cognitive dysfunction that that often is a demeinta prodrome and can be operationally defined as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and ultimately with dementia. ARCD is a major so
This spending item is part of a $2,526,921 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,415,920 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Obesity is a worldwide health epidemic and a major contributor to the increased prevalence and severity of more than 60 metabolic, inflammatory, degenerative, cognitive, and neoplastic disorders. Broadly effective preventive and therapeutic strategies hav
This spending item is part of a $3,811,268 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2010
OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, INC $1,400,000 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The goal of this project is to continue the work that OCHIN has begun in successfully deploying Epic Corporation's CCHIT certified Electronic Medical Record (EMR) at HRSA Section 330 Community Health Centers (CHCs) throughout our HCCN ... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/19/2009
ALBINA HEAD START INC $1,368,505 ARRA - Early Head Start This award provides for ARRA Early Head Start Expansion funded to serve 56 children. The Early Head Start program provides family-centered services for low-income families with very young children (pre-birth to 3) to promote the healthy development of the Administration for Children and Families 11/09/2009
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $1,350,000 ARRA - Immunization The purpose of this program is to provide support for the enhanced interoperability of Electronic Health Records with a specific focus on the exchange of vaccination records and reducing the duplicate data entry burden on providers. Direct funding to stat Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/01/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,343,850 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Although cochlear implants (CI) can dramatically improve speech recognition for many patients in quiet surroundings, CI performance and outcome is variable across individuals; speech recognition in noise is often worse, and music perception is not improve National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $1,325,306 ARRA - Community Services Block Grant Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds may be used for carrying out activities under sections 674 through 679 of the Community Services Block Grant Act which includes the CSBG program assurances as state
This spending item is part of a $7,989,158 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/10/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,263,092 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Jungers Center for Neurosciences Research proposes to recruit a newly-independent neuroscientist to expand and enhance its research efforts around the theme of Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration. Founded in 2006, the Jungers Center is a new and evol National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $1,242,560 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We will study several genetic tests related to colon cancer that may help doctors understand who will get colon cancer and what therapies some patients should receive. We will study who gets tested, how the genetic test result helps people decide what to
This spending item is part of a $3,991,808 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,215,770 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support When computerized provider order entry (CPOE) is coupled with real-time computer-based decision support (CDS), medical errors decrease and costs can drop because clinicians can be alerted to potential errors or guided to select lower cost medications and
This spending item is part of a $1,491,183 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/03/2009
NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD $1,183,186 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Improving Data & Enhancing Access - Northwest (IDEA-NW). Using the most complete roster of Northwest American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) available, the IDEA-NW Project will conduct record linkages with an array of health-related data systems ... Show more Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,099,386 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Contraceptive failure is the primary cause of unintended pregnancy in the United States. With obesity rates at epidemic proportions, any association between obesity and strategies that prevent undesired pregnancies constitutes a significant public health National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
MT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE $1,087,410 ARRA - Early Head Start This award provides for ARRA Early Head Start Expansion consistent with the provision of the Head Start Act for the Head Start Early Head Start program. Head Start promotes the school readiness of low-income children through the provision of comprehensiv Administration for Children and Families 11/09/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,054,834 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the master circadian clock in mammals. Individual SCN neurons are cell-autonomous oscillators with diverse free-running periods of activity (19 to 28 hours). Intracellular communication is required to synchronize these National Institutes of Health 8/04/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,025,763 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is pleased to submit a competitive continuation for its National Library of Medicine (NLM) fellowship training program for a fourth five-yea National Institutes of Health 7/23/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,008,364 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Making HIV testing routine is one of the major HIV prevention strategies in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommended that prevention counseling not be required as part of HIV screening programs in medical care
This spending item is part of a $12,292,823 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $1,000,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses Challenge Area 06, Enabling technologies; Specific challenge topic 06-MH-103, 'New technologies for neuroscience research' MicroRNAs are believed to contribute to schizophrenia, autism, Tourette's syndrome, mood disorders, and f National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $999,728 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Specific targeting of oncogenic signaling pathways with kinase inhibitors has vastly improved clinical outcomes for patients with a variety of cancer diagnoses, most notably patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. To expand this targeted-therapy approach National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $993,710 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Advanced MRI acquisitions have tremendous potential to investigate tissue structure and functions, but require substantial image processing resources. The creation of an image processing Core at OHSUG??s Advanced Imaging Research Center will significantl National Institutes of Health 8/13/2009
COMMUNITY FOOD SEC COALITION $991,178 obesity prevention national TA Health and Human Services, Department of 7/15/2010
COMMUNITY FOOD SEC COALITION $991,178 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness - Leveraging National Organizations Obesity Prevention National Technical Assistance Health and Human Services, Department of 7/15/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $990,602 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal seeks support for hiring a young husband and ife team from the HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus who will add great strength to the Vollum Institute. Drs. Haining Zhong and Tianyi Mao utilize newly developed optical approaches to solve probl National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $979,142 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Molecular imaging techniques with targeted imaging probes have been developed with specific clinical goals in mind. In cardiovascular disease, there is hope that molecular imaging will have a positive impact on patient management by early detection of dis National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, INC $969,721 ARRA - Community Health Applied Research Network The goal of this cooperative agreement is to build research infrastructure to develop and generate Comparitive Effectiveness Research (CER). OCHIN will be collaborating with Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), the state's only acedemic health c... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,000,000 allocation. See details
Health Resources and Services Administration 8/25/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $959,147 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-term objective of this research is to define the mechanisms occurring within the primate corpus luteum (CL) that are critical for its development, function, and regression. Evidence obtained from nonprimate species indicates that prostaglandins r National Institutes of Health 7/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $950,257 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Recent research has shown evidence of neural plasticity at older ages and that cognitive exercise or training may help performance and delay age-related cognitive decline and various forms of dementia. Previous approaches to cognitive training have genera National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $944,202 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The applicant has been in the forefront of studies of the function of PB1-F2. Studies in cells have shown that PB1-F2 targets the mitochondrial membrane where it interacts with AMT3 and VDAC1 of the permeability transition pore complex causing the release
This spending item is part of a $7,935,507 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $938,866 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Uveitis is a major cause of blindness. Anterior uveitis is approximately four times as common as posterior uveitis. Endotoxin-induced uveitis, a model first described by the PI nearly 30 years ago, has been a valuable tool to understand acute inflammation National Institutes of Health 8/04/2009
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $927,324 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support With regard to the annual toll of people killed, malaria remains one of the deadliest diseases in the world today, as it has been so for thousands of years. For each of the 1 million people killed each year there are hundreds that are severely sickened by
This spending item is part of a $987,502 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $924,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The following grant application is submitted in response to RFA-OD-09-005 (Recovery Act Limited Competition: Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers [P30]). We believe that the application National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $917,347 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses Challenge Area (01) Behavior, Behavioral Change, and Prevention and specific Challenge Topic, 01-DA-104: Functional Roles of Glia-Derived Factors in Mediating Drug Abuse. In line with NIDA's mission to support research that will
This spending item is part of a $944,347 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $891,804 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We will identify means to effectively disseminate, adopt and use an established, evidence-based worksite health promotion/injury reduction program for firefighters in 12 departments (~1200 total firefighters) in the Pacific NW. The program is research-bas
This spending item is part of a $943,677 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $881,965 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Nonhuman primate (NHP) models area essential to the conduct of translational research and the advancement of biomedical science. There is a critical need to increase the NHP housing and research capacity to address major human health threats. The Oregon N National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $855,098 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Multnomah County (population 717,880) is an urban community that occupies 450 square miles in the northwest corner of Oregon. All of Multnomah County is designated a HPSA for primary care professionals (HPSA #141999410N); a HPSA for me... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/23/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $848,764 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ A network of 32 health services and intervention scientists affiliated with the HMO Research Network propose to build a national database for conducting comparative effectiveness research on treatment and on approaches to preventing diabetes mell... Show more
This spending item is part of a $8,920,115 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $846,235 ARRA - Immunization Section 317 Immunization Plan. The overall purpose of the funds are to stabilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases. This grant will incre
This spending item is part of a $1,251,425 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $787,279 ARRA - Community Health Applied Research Network The goal of this cooperative agreement is to build research infrastructure to develop and generate Comparitive Effectiveness Research (CER). OCHIN will be collaborating with Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), the state's only acedemic health c... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,000,000 allocation. See details
Health Resources and Services Administration 8/25/2010
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $785,560 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Malaria remains one of the world's deadliest diseases, destroying lives by the millions and staggering families, communities and even nations with a burden that crushes hope. The demoralizing impact of the disease extends beyond the annual body count to e
This spending item is part of a $934,196 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $770,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cataracts affect an estimated 20.5 million Americans, expected to rise to 30.1 million by 2020. Removal of cataracts and treatment for the most common complication of this procedure, posterior capsule opacification (PCO), are major Medicare expenditures. National Institutes of Health 5/14/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $770,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Totally blind people with no light perception cannot synchronize (entrain) their circadian rhythms to the light/dark cycle. Nevertheless, about half of these people are entrained to the 24- hour day. The time cues for entrainment are not known and may inc National Institutes of Health 8/26/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $769,676 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Amalgamating the tools and techniques of molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, and pharmacology, this competing renewal application offers an experimental paradigm to validate key components of the polyamine pathway of Leishmania and to implement a s National Institutes of Health 5/29/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $762,463 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Despite the high prevalence of migraine in the general population, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms remains incomplete. A variety of theories focused on peripheral neural or neurovascular mechanisms have been put forward, but none of these h National Institutes of Health 7/19/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $757,813 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-range goal of this project is to develop methods for enhancing motor function in patients with motor disabilities. Our approach to improving motor function has been to couple assisted movement with enhanced sensation ('AMES'), in which the patent National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $756,956 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The biggest challenge in fighting the obesity epidemic is developing better ways to help individuals that have lost weight maintain their weight loss over many years. This challenge grant provides funding to analyze follow-up data collected 2 -+ years fo
This spending item is part of a $996,603 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE $735,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology Professionals in Health Care Region A Community College Consortium Proposal provides funding to improve the capactiy of community colleges in Region A to train health professionals in the use of electronic health records. Region A community colleges will train ap... Show more
This spending item is part of a $6,413,261 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 4/02/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $728,086 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Develop technologies for assessment of aortic aneurysms prone to rupture or dissection. Thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms (TAA and AAA) are life threatening conditions that comprise the thirteenth leading cause of death in the United States. For bot
This spending item is part of a $829,915 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $724,228 ARRA - Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)-Building and Sustaining State Programs to Prevent HAIs: Funds will be used to expand Oregon's existing HAI Reporting Program and to support more focused planning efforts to reduce HAIs in Oregon. The specific ... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $708,823 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses broad Challenge Area (15): 15-NS-102: Translation of Gene Silencing Therapeutics. The proposed challenge set forth in the RFA is to extend the current understanding of the feasibility and safety of RNA interference (RNAi) therap
This spending item is part of a $933,051 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $705,997 ARRA - Health Information Technology Extension Program This project is a Cooperative Agreement and will assist providers across the entire state of Oregon with a comprehensive set of technical asssistance services and direct support offerings designed to ensure the successful implementation and mean... Show more
This spending item is part of a $14,597,817 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 2/08/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $694,815 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support NMDA receptors (NMDARs) are one of two major types of ion channels located in the postsynaptic membrane at the vast majority of excitatory synapses in the CNS. They not only mediate excitation but, because of their permeability to calcium, raise intracell National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $693,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cyclic AMP (cAMP), the prototypical second messenger, regulates a wide variety of cellular processes. In the nervous system, cAMP has a role in many of the medium- to long-term changes that occur in neurons, and that we associate with higher-order functio National Institutes of Health 5/05/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $684,641 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses broad Challenge Area (06) Enabling Technologies and specific Challenge Topic, 06-HL-109: Generate Reagents for Studying Lung Cell Biology and Disease Progression. The application focuses on the compelling need to generate cell-s
This spending item is part of a $1,000,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $682,345 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The combined threat of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and obesity is arguably the worst major health problem affecting the western world. While there has been progress in reducing CVD mortality, death rates remain unacceptably high. Current approaches to tr
This spending item is part of a $2,921,456 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2010
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $679,006 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--State Territories and Pacific Islands This grant provides the opportunity for state and territorial health departments to apply for ARRA funds to reduce risk factors, prevent/delay chronic diseases, and promote wellness in both children and adults. The supplement exp... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2/06/2010
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $661,049 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--State Territories and Pacific Islands This grant provides the opportunity for state and territorial health departments to apply for ARRA funds to reduce risk factors, prevent/delay chronic diseases, and promote wellness in both children and adults. The supplement exp... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2/06/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $656,560 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Kaposi's sarcoma, the most prevalent malignancy in AIDS patients, is characterized by proliferating spindle cells of endothelial cell (EC) origin, infiltration by inflammatory cells and the presence of the KS herpesvirus (KSHV) in lesions. The ultimate go National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
ALBINA HEAD START INC $652,677 ARRA - Head Start This award provides for ARRA Head Start Expansion funding to serve 40 children in a center based (classroom) environment. The Head Start program provides child care and family services for low-income families with children ages of 3-5 years. The primary Administration for Children and Families 9/18/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $644,602 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The projected need for Indian rhesus macaques for AIDS-related research continues to exceed availability. Given the interest in nonhuman primates for bioterrorism and emerging disease research, this shortage will likely continue for years to come. While s National Institutes of Health 8/25/2009
NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD $640,000 Demonstration Projects for Indian Health NATIVE AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTERS FOR HEALTH (NARCH V) Indian Health Service 9/18/2010
NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD $629,160 ARRA - Health Information Technology Extension Program The National Indian Health Board will support tribal and tribal organizations in their effort to obtain electronic health records and achieve meaningful use. The National Indian Health Board serves on behalf of all federally recognized Tribes. ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $15,842,318 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 3/31/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $624,446 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long- term objective of this project is to use new technologies to sensitively measure, automatically analyze and efficiently manage clinical trial data for Parkinson's disease (PD) and other neurological disorders. This project will focus on developi
This spending item is part of a $999,446 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $623,340 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Mitochondria play a pivotal role in cell survival and tissue development by virtue of their role in energy metabolism, regulation of cellular Ca2+ homeostasis and apoptosis. Given this multifactorial role, these aspects of cellular function must operate a
This spending item is part of a $670,860 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, INC $621,875 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The OCHIN Transforming Care Quality (TCQ) project seeks to positively impact the health status of patients with diabetes who are served by five different community health center organizations located in Oregon and California. This pr... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/19/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $619,520 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ The Scalable PArtnering Network for CER: Across Lifespan, Conditions, and Settings, or SPAN, will develop a distributed research network that is interoperable across a range of health care systems and sites, incorporating large and diverse patien... Show more
This spending item is part of a $8,272,272 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $615,000 ARRA Prevention Research Centers Comparative Effectiveness Research Program The overall goal of the Center for Health Communities is to provide an effective administrative and organizational environment for the successful conduct of prevention research and training between community and university pa... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/23/2011
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $608,525 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The perioculomotor area (pIII) is the main source of neuropeptide Urocortin 1 (Ucn1) in the brain. Ucn1 is an endogenous peptide related to the corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) that has higher affinity to CRF receptors than CRF itself. In addition to National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON (INC) $601,274 ARRA - Head Start Portland Public Schools Head Start Program is a pre-K program serving three-and four-year old children who qualify as low-income or have identified special needs. The Program provides service within the City of Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. The pr Administration for Children and Families 9/18/2009
OREGON PRIMARY CARE ASSOCATION INC $599,997 The Oregon Primary Care Association (OPCA) will administer a multi-faceted SEARCH program to ensure that medical and dental students and residents have access to high quality learning experiences in safety net clinics serving vulnerable populations in urb Health Resources and Services Administration 9/29/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $592,052 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In this application, we describe a new community partnership entitled Collaborative Research Efforts Aimed at Translating Evidence and building Community Capacity (CREATE Community Capacity). The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and OCHIN (a com
This spending item is part of a $996,212 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/20/2010
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $556,105 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The purpose of this grant is one-time funding from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Behavioral Surveillance Branch (BSB) to collect the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) baseline and follow-up data from Multn... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/06/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $554,976 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Environmental and endogenous exposure to chemicals that produce DNA-protein and DNA-peptide crosslinks are correlated with an increased risk of several cancers, asthma, and other diseases. Currently many thousands of individuals in the US population are e National Institutes of Health 6/19/2009
MT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE $535,022 ARRA - Head Start This award provides for Head Start Expansion ARRA consistent with the provisions of the Head Start Act for the Head Start program. Head Start promotes the school readiness of low-income children through the provision of comprehensive health, developmenta Administration for Children and Families 9/18/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $500,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) maintains a free-standing, 2,500 sq. ft. magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility that is within 100 ft. of the ONPRC surgical space, and is dedicated to the study of nonhuman primate subjects. This arr National Institutes of Health 5/13/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $498,740 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Addictive conditions (often compounded by major depressive disorder) are major problems for many pregnant women. But there is little or no information about comparative effectiveness of outpatient versus residential substance abuse treatment for... Show more Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
ALBINA HEAD START INC $496,007 ARRA - Head Start This award provides for ARRA Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), 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 Head Start program. Head Start promotes the school rea Administration for Children and Families 6/02/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $495,816 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Comparative effectiveness research will play a crucial role in shaping national health care reform by investigating and identifying mechanisms to improve quality, reduce the cost of care, and conduct primary research that responds to the needs of patients National Institutes of Health 9/30/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $492,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Interferon (IFN) and IFN-stimulated gene products (ISGs) are essential components of the innate immune response to viral infection. Conversely, viruses need to limit the induction or function of ISGs for successful infection of their respective host. One National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $482,619 ARRA - Immunization Emerging Infections Program (EIP) Vaccine Effectiveness: 13-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV13), Quadrivalent Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine (MCV4) and Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine (HPV) - For PCV13, funds will be used to evaluate the effecti Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/31/2009
OUTSIDE IN $482,120 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The title of the project is ARRA - Capital Improvement Program. This capital grant is for a space addition for the clinic and an electronic health record upgrade. The goal of the space expansion component is to build additional examina... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, INC $478,125 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The goal of this project is to continue the work that OCHIN has begun in successfully deploying Epic System's award-winning EMR at Community Health Centers in Oregon and California, and to build upon these implementations to improve th... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/14/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $476,304 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-term goal of this project is to provide high-quality animal care and housing that enhances the productivity of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)'s PHS-funded researchers. This proposal has two specific aims: 1) to expand the capacity of m National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $461,515 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The genetic components of age-related disorders are of intense interest, and genome wide association studies (GWAS) are an important tool in identifying chromosomal loci that are associated with disease. Two of the major and interlinked challenges for suc
This spending item is part of a $830,902 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
MT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE $444,199 ARRA - Head Start This awards provides for Head Start 2009 ARRA COLA Quality Improvement Funding consistent with the provisions of Section 640(a)(5) of the Head Start Act for the Head Start and Early Head Start program. Head Start promotes the school readiness of low-inco Administration for Children and Families 6/01/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $442,504 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Objectives: To create the IT, data-sharing, education, and oversight tools necessary for a patient-driven, national adult congenital heart disease research network. Aims: (1) To demonstrate the feasibility of a patient-centered research model for patients
This spending item is part of a $996,091 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/20/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $441,958 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We are producing replicated lines of mice selectively bred for their propensity to high drinking in the dark (HDID). We are breeding mice for their high (>150 mg-%) BALs on the second day of 2 daily exposures to 20% ethanol for 2-4 h/day, starting in hr 3 National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $441,564 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Little is known of the inflammatory mechanisms of chronic otitis media that lead to inner ear pathology. Therefore, the long-term goal of this research program is to identify and prevent the inflammatory processes by which chronic middle ear disease cause National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
CENTRAL CITY CONCERN $426,400 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] 1 Old Town Clinic - Space Reconfiguring at the Old Town Clinic in order to improve efficiencies and patient access: Alteration/renovation of clinic work areas, restrooms, and pharmacy. Computer equipment installed into exam rooms.... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $423,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Ocular toxoplasmosis is an inflammatory eye disease caused by infection with the parasite, Toxoplasma gondii. In the US alone, this condition is estimated to affect over 1.25 million individuals. In otherwise healthy adults, who constitute the largest gro National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $423,183 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Retinal degeneration is one of the leading causes of vision loss and blindness in the world. Some retinopathies are caused by autoimmune processes. Autoantibodies against retinal proteins are strongly associated with retinal degeneration in patients with National Institutes of Health 8/19/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $422,750 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal is a substantial revision of application 1 R21 MH079984-01 which was reviewed October 11, 2006 by the Mental Health Services in Non- Specialty Settings review group. Goals, specific aims, and hypotheses have been clarified to be consistent w National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $422,365 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cardiovascular disease can lead to myocardial infarction (Ml) and subsequent heart failure. There are currently a number of therapies aimed at preventing or treating heart failure post-Mi. Only heart transplantation replaces infarcted myocardium to restor National Institutes of Health 6/02/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $418,865 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Improvements in cancer screening effectiveness, higher participation rates and faster introduction of new screening tests could have pronounced effects on the health of the community by reducing cancer burden. Cancer screening effectiveness in real-world
This spending item is part of a $3,988,809 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $418,802 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-term goals of the proposed research are to develop tissue-engineering materials (TEM) with enhanced biocompatibility, and flexibility to tailor mechanical properties for a wide range of applications. There are two specific aims for this proposal. National Institutes of Health 4/29/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $416,480 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Infectious diseases are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria causes serious concerns even for infections that once were treatable with antibiotics or other antimicrobial agents. A notable example is a re National Institutes of Health 5/29/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $412,084 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The development of tolerance to opioids limits their effectiveness for the treatment of pain. A wide variety of opioids that are commonly used in the clinic for the treatment of pain and drug addiction have dramatically different pharmacological propertie National Institutes of Health 4/29/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $405,026 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ The STONE study, a multi-center randomized controlled trial (RCT), is a comparative effectiveness trial of three different imaging strategies in patients with suspected urolithiasis (kidney stones), seen in the Emergency Department. The study fo... Show more
This spending item is part of a $9,154,210 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, INC $404,160 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In this application, we describe a new community partnership entitled Collaborative Research Efforts Aimed at Translating Evidence and building Community Capacity (CREATE Community Capacity). The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and OCHIN (a com
This spending item is part of a $996,212 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/20/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $386,090 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application's long-term goal is to elucidate the genetic regulation of the ' fibrinogen isoform as a foundation for understanding its role in cardiovascular disease. The specific hypothesis behind the proposed research is that elevated ?' fibrinogen
This spending item is part of a $418,590 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $385,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Ricin is a potent toxin whose wide availability and ease of purification has resulted in its development as an agent of bioterrorism. The most likely and lethal means of delivery of ricin by terrorists to human populations would be by aerosolization. Th National Institutes of Health 6/21/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $385,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This revised proposal is in response to the opportunity for Enabling RPGs to Leverage NCRR Center and Center-like Programs with the purpose of accelerating the pace of research of our NCI-funded project R01-CA98577-06, 'Mechanisms of Cancer Initiation by National Institutes of Health 6/14/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $384,896 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Methamphetamine (METH) is an addictive psychostimulant with extremely high relapse rates. Effective pharmacotherapies to treat METH addiction, and in particular to counter relapse have not yet been developed. Research in animal models implicates the corti National Institutes of Health 5/07/2009
NATIVE AMERICAN REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION INC $384,365 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Project Description: The purpose of developing the new site is to provide a community based center that provides medical care, mental health services and substance abuse treatment in a model that is specifically designed for patients l... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $381,150 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Fibromyalgia (FM) is a pain disorder defined by chronic widespread pain and multiple muscle-tendon junction tender points. Exercise has been suggested as a treatment for FM. Several exercise interventions in FM have demonstrated that patients who can tole National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
APDM, INC. $375,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long- term objective of this project is to use new technologies to sensitively measure, automatically analyze and efficiently manage clinical trial data for Parkinson's disease (PD) and other neurological disorders. This project will focus on developi
This spending item is part of a $999,446 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $372,680 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Epigenetic silencing plays a major role in cancer formation because it leads to aberrant inactivation of tumor suppressor genes. Therefore, a fundamental goal for cancer prevention is to inhibit aberrant silencing in somatic cells. Diet provides a potenti National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $358,159 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Protein turnover in pancreatic tumors is much higher than in normal tissues due to both unchecked proliferation and ongoing adaptive pressures. Coincident with this, normal controls on both protein synthesis and degradation are often found deregulated. Re National Institutes of Health 9/14/2010
SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON (INC) $350,875 ARRA - Head Start This award has two parts: Part 1 is for Quality Improvement for $291,760 that will be used for repairs to sites, install and upgrade phone systems and replace classroom materials and furniture and part 2 is for COLA - $59,115 that will provide for a 1.84 Administration for Children and Families 6/01/2009
SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON (INC) $350,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,499,487 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $350,000 Molecular Characterization & Assay Development DCTD Utilization of ARRA (Stimulus) Resources, NCIG??s Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD), under the umbrella of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), is requesting support
This spending item is part of a $9,500,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 2/04/2010
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $346,030 ARRA- State Primary Care Offices Primary Care Services Resource Coordination and Development Award. The overall purpose of this award is to create jobs and improve the healthcare infrastructure. The award funds programs to recruit and retain primary healthcare medical professionals to a Health Resources and Services Administration 9/11/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $345,644 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal explores consequences of chronic alcohol (ethanol; EtOH) exposure and withdrawal on sex- specific astrocyte activation, expression and function. Chronic EtOH abuse is associated with neurotoxicity and reactive astrogliosis, but the mechanism National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $344,937 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of the proposed study is to explore the benefits of Exercising Together - a partnered strength training program for married couples coping with prostate cancer - on the physical and emotional health of prostate cancer survivors (PCS) and their
This spending item is part of a $382,129 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $341,258 ARRA - Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Program - Innovations in the Surveillance of Multi-drug Resistant Organisms and Healthcare-Associated Infections - Funds will be used to expand the role of Oregon's Emerging Infections Program (EIP) in the preve... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $338,545 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) consortium was established in 2003 and was conceived to address important issues in bariatric surgery and metabolism in the obese and morbidly obese. LABS explores relationships of patient characteristi
This spending item is part of a $501,011 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 3/29/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $331,030 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Exposure to short wave ultraviolet light has been demonstrated to be the causal factor in nonmelanoma skin cancers and a strong risk factor in melanomas. While human cells only use nucleotide excision repair to repair the UV-induced dipyrimidine DNA photo National Institutes of Health 9/03/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $327,570 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The name of this grant is Impact of Core Implementation Components on Adoption. This grant supports a study of translational research investigating how effective drug abuse treatments move from multi-site effectiveness research into application in the tre
This spending item is part of a $797,214 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $327,026 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This request for supplemental funding provides an excellent opportunity to address the OCTRI Community Research and Engagement Specific Aim 3 of G?build[ing] and alliance between communities and researchers that will foster public trust and engagement and
This spending item is part of a $599,998 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/07/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $326,822 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-term goal of this project is to determine the role of viral pathogens in the development of vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, restenosis, and transplant vascular sclerosis (TVS). All of these diseases are the result of either mechanical National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $320,611 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Energy expenditure is an important neutrally regulated component of energy homeostasis. Alterations in energy homeostasis (imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure) can result in body weight gain and contribute to the growing epidemic of ob National Institutes of Health 6/11/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $316,597 ARRA Prevention Research Centers Comparative Effectiveness Research Program This proposal will determine the comparative effectiveness of telemedicine to traditional surveillance methods (annual eye exams in eye care providerG??s office) for detecting diabetic eye disease. We will compare their abil... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,003,926 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 7/14/2010
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $316,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF) was competitively renewed to study why some women achieve and maintain high cognitive and physical function, and low risk of falls and fractures in the 9th and 10th decade of life. The SOF Coordinating Center was National Institutes of Health 9/04/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $313,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The role of maternal neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) in determining whether an infant becomes infected during Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT) of HIV-1 is unclear. Higher levels of both autologous and heterologous NAbs are associated with non-transmissi National Institutes of Health 9/24/2010
OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, INC $308,791 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Comparative effectiveness research (CER) requires that clinical data be in standard forms allowing multiple, large databases to be efficiently combined, and requires that all of the data be coded so that automated summarization of the data is pos... Show more
This spending item is part of a $8,696,942 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $308,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Glaucoma remains a major blinding disease affecting over 66 million persons worldwide. This project has focused on the molecular mechanism(s) by which laser trabeculoplasty (LTP) ameliorates the elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) associated with most of National Institutes of Health 7/22/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $305,033 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal stems from a longstanding collaboration between Central City Concern (CCC), an internationally-recognized community-based organization providing healthcare, housing, employment and addiction receovery support to over 13,000 inner city client
This spending item is part of a $400,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2010
PROVIDENCE HEALTH SYSTEM-OREGON $299,990 ARRA ? Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals This award supports Promoting Nurse Specialists; Using Simulation to Enhance the Residency Experience. The purchase and installation of simulation equipment to support nursing specialty residency training will support existing nursing res... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/02/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $285,203 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The 4DB Center's potential impact is on two fronts, the basic research ability to conduct physical sciences experiments on cancer patient samples in a meaningful way and to generate the force and time journey of cancer cells during the metastatic phase. T
This spending item is part of a $3,878,972 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $282,873 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The liver is the main site of intermediary metabolism of amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids and xenobiotics. Metabolic pathways, especially those of xenobiotic compounds, are highly species specific and can vary even between individuals of the same specie
This spending item is part of a $998,778 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
LEGACY EMANUEL HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER $281,936 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Ischemic stroke is a leading course of mortality and morbidity, and the most common reason for long-term disabilities. Unfortunately there is still no effective treatment for stroke patients. Our recent studies in neuronal cell culture have demonstrated National Institutes of Health 3/22/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $280,416 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Nonhuman primate (NHP) models are essential tot the conduct of translational research and the advancement of biomedical science. Because of their close phylogenetic relationships, nonhuman primates are the closest physiological, genetic, and anatomical mo National Institutes of Health 9/07/2009
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY $272,972 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This request for supplemental funding provides an excellent opportunity to address the OCTRI Community Research and Engagement Specific Aim 3 of G?build[ing] and alliance between communities and researchers that will foster public trust and engagement and
This spending item is part of a $599,998 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/07/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $263,910 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal for a secondary analysis of data collected in a parent ethnographic study of end-of-life decision making (EOLDM) in intensive care units (ICUs). The current proposal uses qualitative description to focus on the roles of key persons in EOLDM
This spending item is part of a $383,980 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 3/25/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $263,330 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The liver is the main site of intermediary metabolism of amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids and xenobiotics. Metabolic pathways, especially those of xenobiotic compounds, are highly species specific and can vary even between individuals of the same specie
This spending item is part of a $998,778 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
OUTSIDE IN $256,008 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Outside In will hire .6 FTE of a Family Practice provider and .6 FTE of a Medical assistant and retain .25 of a contracted Family Practice provider who was scheduled to be eliminated due to budget shortfalls. This is a total of 1.45 ne... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $255,257 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Tuberculosis remains an important clinical problem throughout the world. The causative agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is a facultative intracellular pathogen, residing primarily in macrophages. Protective immunity to tuberculosis National Institutes of Health 8/02/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $255,081 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Many clinical applications, including reporting tools and electronic health records, subscribe to a paradigm of forms-based interfaces, where the software prompts the user with a sequence of forms for data entry. In this paradigm. the user interface is th
This spending item is part of a $409,326 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/14/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $253,971 Molecular Characterization & Assay Development DCTD Utilization of ARRA (Stimulus) Resources, NCIG??s Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD), under the umbrella of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), is requesting support
This spending item is part of a $9,500,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 2/04/2010
AFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS $250,000 ARRA Strengthening Communities Fund ARRA Strenthening communities fund: State, Local, and Tribal Government Capacity Building Program Administration for Children and Families 9/23/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $246,997 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In the most recent data supplied by the American Heart Assocation, cardiovascular disease remained the major underlying cause of death in the United States with the majority of these deaths being due to coronary heart disease and stroke. Given the high pr
This spending item is part of a $1,699,448 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $240,259 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) consortium was established in 2003 and was conceived to address important issues in bariatric surgery and metabolism in the obese and morbidly obese. LABS explores relationships of patient characteristic
This spending item is part of a $299,999 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 3/26/2010
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $236,083 ARRA - Survey and Certification Ambulatory Surgical Center Healthcare-Associated Infection (ASC-HAI) Prevention Initiative Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) - Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative -- State Plan. This initiative will significantly expand the awareness of proper infec... Show more Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 1/05/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $226,020 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Quantitative, acoustic models of segmental timing in spoken English, such as have been developed for text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), acknowledge that segment durations in connected speech reflect the combined influence of systematic factors as well as non
This spending item is part of a $437,226 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $222,650 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A group of investigators at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) request funds to purchase a Laser Capture Microdissection System. The instrument will be used to procure pure populations of cells out of complex tissues, necessary to isolate National Institutes of Health 5/20/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $222,548 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The events necessary for ovulation and, thus, fertilization include the development of an ovulatory follicle possessing a mature egg, follicle rupture, as well as the detachment of the oocyte and surrounding cumulus cells from the wall of the follicle. F National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $221,596 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In vivo analysis of cerebellar circuitry has focused almost exclusively on Purkinje cells, identified by their iconic patterns of complex and simple spikes (CSs and SSs). However, views of cerebellar function based exclusively on the physiology of Purkinj National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $216,768 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We are requesting funds to purchase a PicoQuant FluoTime 200 fluorescence lifetime instrument. This instrument will augment and ultimately replace our 13 year old PTI LaserStrobe fluorescence lifetime system, which was originally purchased by the OHSU De National Institutes of Health 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $213,846 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Glucocorticoids (prednisone, methlyprednisolone, dexamethasone) have been employed for decades for control of hearing loss. However, little is known of the cellular and molecular processes of the ear that are under their control. Knowledge of these steroi National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $203,038 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support About 1% of newborn babies in the US have congenital heart disease (CHD), the leading cause of death among infants. Hemodynamic forces, which are wall shear stresses and pressures generated by the flow of blood, are key factors that regulate heart develop National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
WEBMD HEALTH CORP. $199,811 Comprehensive Campaign for Communication and Education about Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
This spending item is part of a $18,703,430 allocation. See details
Program Support Center 3/26/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $197,976 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a revised renewal application aimed at elucidating the neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying the initiation of female puberty. During the last funding period we examined the hypothesis that the activation of LHRH secretion at puberty requires a cel National Institutes of Health 7/27/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $197,488 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Phosphorylated inositol phospholipids (phosphoinositides) regulate a multitude of cellular functions via downstream lipid-binding effector proteins. Phosphoinositide-controlled processes include cytoskeletal organization, gene expression, cell proliferati National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK, INC $191,250 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] This project is working to develop an innovative comprehensive Electronic Health Record (EHR) by integrating mental, behavioral, and oral health care functionality within the existing state-of-the-art Epic Electronic Medical Record (EM... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/14/2009
PORTLAND, CITY OF $190,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $189,800 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overall aim of the proposed research is to identify the neural substrates of impulsive decision making associated with chronic exposure to drugs of abuse. Such information is potentially important for understanding the development and cessation of hab National Institutes of Health 5/04/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $189,123 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Intravenous (IV) administration of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is an effective and approved therapy for acute stroke when treatment is begun within 3 hours of symptom onset. Recent data suggest limited benefits up to 4.5 hours after symptom onset
This spending item is part of a $3,067,107 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
CENTRAL CITY CONCERN $187,917 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Central City Concern (CCC) will add capacity for medical services at the Old Town Clinic and at the 12th Ave Recovery Center, which is a Community Mental Health Center, and retain medical capacity that would have been lost at Hooper U... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $184,810 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is pleased to submit a competitive continuation for its National Library of Medicine (NLM) fellowship training program for a fourth five-yea National Institutes of Health 6/08/2009
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $183,829 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Although the prevalence of family-friendly policies in US workplaces has increased dramatically in recent years, few have been studied using scientifically sound designs. To address this critical gap, the NIH and the CDC formed the Work, Family, and Healt
This spending item is part of a $301,026 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $183,333 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $183,333 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $183,285 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long term goals of our laboratory are to understand the molecular mechanisms responsible for cell fate specification and sensory patch formation in the developing mammalian inner ear. Progress toward understanding these essential aspects of inner ear National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $178,291 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overall goal of the parent grant is to identify factors involved in the increase in food intake and negative energy balance and determine their functional role in the suppression of GnRH/LH secretion during lactation. However, this research has broade National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
DAVID DOUGLAS SCHOOOL DISTRICT #40 $175,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
MULTNOMAH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT U2-20 JT $175,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
MULTNOMAH SCHOOL DISTRICT #3 $175,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
GRESHAM, CITY OF $175,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
PORTLAND, CITY OF $175,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
CENTENNIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT 28-302 JT (INC) $175,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
REYNOLDS SCHOOL DISTRICT #7 (INC) $175,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $174,342 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Visceral sensory pathways that innervate the cardiovascular, respiratory and gastrointestinal systems are critical for reflex control of autonomic homeostasis. It is well established that functional characteristics of visceral reflexes, including arterial National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $169,700 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project will continue the development, validation, and commercialization efforts of Audiology Incorporated to develop hearing testing products that will increase access, efficiency, and accuracy of hearing tests. The methods are based on behavioral s
This spending item is part of a $1,970,866 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 4/08/2010
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $169,561 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project will develop a Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) including eight established public-domain research centers based in large, integrated not-for-profit health systems. Together, these health systems provide comprehensive health care to app
This spending item is part of a $1,499,873 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/09/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $167,696 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In this application, we are requesting an ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer) for the Metal Ion Core in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at OHSU. An ICP-MS determines the concentration for elements from Li to U with h National Institutes of Health 5/07/2009
NATIVE AMERICAN REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION INC $167,658 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] HRSA Increased Demand for Services Grant CFDA 93.703 The purpose of the project is respond to the demand for care by increasing numbers of uninsured patients by expanding clinic hours with the addition of two evening clinics each week ... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $163,548 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Synaptic mechanisms of inhibition represent some of the greatest gaps in our understanding of the processing of acoustic signals in the brainstem. The subtypes of neurons, with whom they interconnect, the efficacy of those connections, and how the size an National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $160,614 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The parent project on which this supplement is based, the Medical Care Burden of Cancer: System and Data Issues [1 R01 CA114204], is addressing an existing information gap by examining and comparing the cost of care for cancer treatment among the elderly
This spending item is part of a $343,694 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $158,534 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this proposal is to determine the role of lipids in mechanotransduction by hair cells. We propose three specific aims. In Aim 1, we will determine which lipids are present in hair bundles using mass spectrometry and histochemical localization. National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY $155,765 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) received an administrative supplement to extend the reach of our parent project Small Museum Research Collaborative (SMRC): Exhibit-Based Outreach (5R25RR22741-04) to additional venues. OMSI will create a h National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $155,377 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chronic pain is an important public health issue, affecting as many as 15-30% of adolescents. Over half of these adolescents report sleep disturbances, such as insomnia, that have the potential to diminish normal daily function, disturb mood, and reduce q National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $154,245 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Many clinical applications, including reporting tools and electronic health records, subscribe to a paradigm of forms-based interfaces, where the software prompts the user with a sequence of forms for data entry. In this paradigm. the user interface is th
This spending item is part of a $409,326 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/14/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $154,009 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Aminoglycoside antibiotics are essential for battling life-threatening bacterial sepsis. Aminoglycosides also cause permanent deafness/balance disorders and nephrotoxicity in more than 120,000 individuals each year in the US, particularly in infants and National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $154,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal is the third submission of application number R01 AA013806-01 which was originally submitted in response to Request for Application Number AA02.002 (Research on Alcohol Health Disparities) and most recently reviewed February 13, 2003 by the National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $154,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Statistical Coordinating Center's (SCC) primary functions are to support the collection and analysis of data for the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, develop and implement novel statistical methodology to characterize the process of breast cance
This spending item is part of a $491,087 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $153,745 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Non-invasive techniques for imaging blood flow - down to capillary-level resolution - are of paramount importance in order to research and diagnose diseases that have vascular etiology or involvement. Current optical imaging techniques are able to achieve National Institutes of Health 8/12/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $150,207 Aging Congregate Nutrition Services for States American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Grant for Congregate Nutrition Services. The grant is being used to stablilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state... Show more
This spending item is part of a $817,179 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $150,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Animal models have provided insight into the physiology of weight regulation, including the hormonal and neurological communication between adipose tissue, the gut, and the brain. Adipocyte hormones, such as leptin, and gut hormones, such as ghrelin, con National Institutes of Health 5/20/2010
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $149,908 ARRA - Immunization Sentinel event reporting award. The overall purpose of this grant is to support staffing and technological enhancements that will ensure a smooth transition from our current immunization information system to a new platform that will better support all us Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $149,840 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chemotherapy, Pain, Sleep, Fatigue in Children and Parents Symptom management is a critical issue in both acute and chronic illness care. Studies with adults repeatedly demonstrate the deleterious effects of symptoms on health outcomes such as mood, physi National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC $148,636 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Malaria remains one of the world's deadliest diseases, destroying lives by the millions and staggering families, communities and even nations with a burden that crushes hope. The demoralizing impact of the disease extends beyond the annual body count to e
This spending item is part of a $934,196 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $148,621 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) consortium was established in 2003 and was conceived to address important issues in bariatric surgery and metabolism in the obese and morbidly obese. LABS explores relationships of patient characteristi National Institutes of Health 4/01/2010
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY/PORTLAND CHAPTER $148,347 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
UPSTREAM PUBLIC HEALTH $148,334 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $148,008 ARRA - Health Careers Opportunity Program Oregon AHEC provides a pipeline of career-based, academically focused services and activities that assist rual, low-income, underrepresented minority and/or First Generation College bound youth in preparing for a career in health or allied health professi
This spending item is part of a $524,896 allocation. See details
Health Resources and Services Administration 12/01/2011
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $146,901 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The genetic components of age-related disorders are of intense interest, and genome wide association studies (GWAS) are an important tool in identifying chromosomal loci that are associated with disease. Two of the major and interlinked challenges for suc National Institutes of Health 9/28/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $142,068 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support People with sensorineural hearing loss experience difficulties understanding speech in noisy environments and often complain that music sounds distorted or unpleasant. Both of these deficits may be attributed to the functional effects of damage to cochlea National Institutes of Health 8/01/2009
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $139,918 ARRA - Immunization Assessing Varicella Vaccine award. The purpose of this funding is to strengthen state and local health department capacity to detect and investigate varicella outbreaks in schools and, in doing so, assess how effectively two doses of varicella vaccine (as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/02/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $137,984 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Small conductance Ca-activated K channels (SK channels) affect excitability and contribute to shaping excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs). SK2 channels are expressed throughout the dendritic arbors of hippocampal CA1 neurons and contribute to synap National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $136,062 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Our overarching goal is to improve patient safety in surgery for spinal stenosis. We hope to achieve this by better informing surgeons' and patients' treatment decisions with individualized data on operative risks. Spinal stenosis is narrowing of the spin
This spending item is part of a $169,214 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $130,914 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This work aims to identify the structural interactions that underlie the process of transcription initiation. We expect to gain novel insight into the fine-scale positioning and function of TFB (Transcription Factor B) and TFE (Transcription Factor E). In National Institutes of Health 4/30/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $130,414 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cultural gaps between scientists and school educators have hampered the direct transfer of groundbreaking research to schools, teachers, and students. Teachers are a potential bridge to close this gap, but all too often, they are intimidated by rapid adva National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
AFRICAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION $128,334 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF PORTLAND IN OREGON $128,334 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
Community Health Partnership $128,334 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $119,681 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Low back pain is one of the most important causes of functional limitation and disability, an Institute of Medicine priority condition, and it remains a particularly important problem for the elderly, an AHRQ priority population. While there are ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $9,887,064 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $117,197 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Although the prevalence of family-friendly policies in US workplaces has increased dramatically in recent years, few have been studied using scientifically sound designs. To address this critical gap, the NIH and the CDC formed the Work, Family, and Healt
This spending item is part of a $301,026 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $115,441 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Obesity is a major health problem in the United States. It increases the risk of insulin resistance (IR) and metabolic syndrome (MS), a cluster of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, and leads to additional pathologies, including non-alcoholic stea
This spending item is part of a $488,566 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 6/01/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $110,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The nature of protein-protein interactions of crystallins forms the basis for understanding the transparent and opaque properties of the normal and cataractous lens. Previous physical studies have suggested that weak, noncovalent interactions of these len
This spending item is part of a $507,126 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $106,457 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students The purpose of the Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) is to increase diversity in the health professions and nursing workforce by providing grants to eligible health professions and nursing schools for use in awarding scholarships to financial... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/14/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $106,338 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overarching goal of this proposal is to develop an innovative, comprehensive curriculum designed to increase medical students' knowledge and skills in the behavioral and social sciences (BSS) related to health. Curriculum development in this area will National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $100,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Therapeutic liver repopulation (TLR) is a process similar to bone marrow transplantation (BMT) resulting in replacement of > 90% of hepatocytes in the recipient liver by transplanted donor cells. Although TLR to date has been achieved experimentally only National Institutes of Health 9/16/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $100,023 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Herpes simplex virus is the major infectious cause of blindness in the US. Herpes keratitis is associated with repeated bouts of reinfection of the cornea by virus derived from sensory neurons HSV particles are transported within neuronal axons from sens National Institutes of Health 1/29/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is the most common inherited disorder in people of Northern European descent. Over 83% of the cases of HH result from a single mutation of a Cys to Tyr in the HH protein, HFE. This mutation causes a recessive disease result National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Transduction of mechanical stimuli - like those of sound and head movements - is the fundamental role of the inner ear and its sensory hair cells. Hair cells transduce deflections of their hair bundles, the sensory organelle, with stunning sensitivity. Wh National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) play key roles in normal muscle development in the fetus, are important for coordinating muscle regeneration following injury in the adult, and are critical for maintaining muscle mass during aging and in disease. The fo National Institutes of Health 12/28/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $99,971 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This administrative supplement would accelerate work on the two aims of the parent R21 grant: 1) Develop, evaluate, and make freely available an end-user natural language processing (NLP) development tool suite to facilitate rapid and effective developme National Institutes of Health 8/19/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $99,916 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Obesity is a prevalent and serious metabolic disease, and is the most significant risk factor for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The major goal of this work is trying to better understanding how the central melanocortin National Institutes of Health 12/18/2009
REED INSTITUTE, THE $98,503 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The project involves basic research designed to enhance our understanding of the genetics of RNA virus-host interactions. A number of pathogenic RNA viruses infect humans. Knowing more about virus-host interactions, particularly the rold of host gene prod National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $98,258 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long term goal of these studies is to understand general principles that govern normal and pathological CFTR folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane. Molecular mechanisms of membrane proteins biogenesis represent a poorly understood area o National Institutes of Health 12/27/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $97,421 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support When computerized provider order entry (CPOE) is coupled with real-time computer-based decision support (CDS), medical errors decrease and costs can drop because clinicians can be alerted to potential errors or guided to select lower cost medications and
This spending item is part of a $1,491,183 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/03/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $97,362 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this research is to understand the mechanism of biosynthesis of peptide siderophores in bacteria. Our paradigms are two peptide siderophores produced by the pathogen Vibrio anguillarum. One is anguibactin, an important component of a plasmid-m National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $94,916 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This program addresses the synergistic interactions of combustion-generated organic pollutants and particles that increase their chemical and biological activity. Program goals include: 1) understand the relationships between the origin, mechanisms of for
This spending item is part of a $3,600,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $94,120 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The past several decades have revealed a devasting trend- the dramatic increase in preventable diseases in children, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The general hypothesis of this proposal National Institutes of Health 12/18/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $90,378 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The neurosteroid allopregnanolone (ALLO) is a potent positive modulator of GABAA receptors, and evidence suggests that GABAergic neurosteroids are endogenous modulators of GABAA receptors and of selective effects of ethanol (EtOH). The present proposal bu National Institutes of Health 8/17/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $89,620 ARRA - Immunization Section 317 Immunization Plan. The overall purpose of the funds are to stabilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases. This grant will incre
This spending item is part of a $1,251,425 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $89,423 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Progression and metastasis of solid tumors is a principal cause of death for cancer patients. The childhood muscle cancer alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a classic example. A gap in understanding the disease-specific mechanisms of progression underlies the d National Institutes of Health 9/14/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $82,556 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The number of pregnant women using methamphetamine (MA) is increasing. Exposure to MA in utero leads to neurological and cognitive deficits in infants that persist into adulthood. Yet, the neurobiology underlying these deficits is not known. Understanding National Institutes of Health 5/07/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $82,388 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-term goal of this project is to determine the role of the sorting proteins PACS-1 and PACS-2 in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). This inherited disorder manifests in formation of numerous cysts in the kidney, culminating in e National Institutes of Health 12/29/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $81,126 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels play a key role in coupling cell metabolism to cell excitability and govern diverse physiological processes including hormone secretions, control of vascular tone, and modulation of the activity of cardiac muscle an National Institutes of Health 1/20/2010
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $81,000 ARRA - Community Health Applied Research Network The goal of this cooperative agreement is to build research infrastructure to develop and generate Comparitive Effectiveness Research (CER). OCHIN will be collaborating with Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), the state's only acedemic health c... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,000,000 allocation. See details
Health Resources and Services Administration 8/25/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $80,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This research aims to elucidate reaction intermediates of NO-reductase activity in diiron proteins, with the ultimate goal of understanding how the metal clusters catalyze this reaction. Our studies will focus on three emzymes: 1) denitrifying NO reducta National Institutes of Health 3/05/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $78,931 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In view of its wide availability and ease of purification, ricin has been employed as a toxic and lethal agent by totalitarian regimes and, recently, by terrorist groups. Ricin is a member of a family of ribosome-directed toxins whose toxicity stems from National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $78,814 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Much is known about the hormonal mechanisms controlling ovarian development. More recently, a major focus of attention in the field has been the identification of regulatory pathways that, operating within the ovarian microenvironment, contribute to the a National Institutes of Health 7/27/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $78,803 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Human periventricular white matter injury (PWMI) is the major form of brain injury and the leading cause of cerebral palsy in survivors of premature birth. With advances in neonatal care, diffuse myelination disturbances and cerebral gray matter atrophy a National Institutes of Health 9/07/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $77,630 ARRA - Immunization Section 317 Immunization Plan. The overall purpose of the funds are to stabilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases. This grant will incre
This spending item is part of a $1,251,425 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $75,870 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal fo this proposed research is to begin to understand how a macrophage responds to Samonella infection and how Salmonella virulence factors alter tht response. We will infect cells with the parent 14028 and isogenic derivatives either missing spec
This spending item is part of a $226,604 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 6/14/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $75,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support To achieve normal growth, development, and quality of life, individuals must maintain adequate intake of nutrition and be free from prolonged metabolic derangement. Unfortunately, people affected with either acute or chronic diseases often show disorders National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
REED INSTITUTE, THE $74,222 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This ARRA grant provides funds to purchase a fluorescent microscope to be used by student and faculty researchers at Reed College for the purpose of localizing gene expression in the brain. It also provides funds to construct a database of gene expression National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $73,943 Aging Home-Delivered Nutrition Services for States American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Grant for Home-Delivered Nutrition Services. Grant funding will be used to stabilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproduc... Show more
This spending item is part of a $402,303 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
DAVID EVANS AND ASSOCIATES, INC. $72,631 ARRA Child Care and Development Block Grant To provide quality child care services to qualifying Native American families who are working or in a training program
This spending item is part of a $583,878 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/09/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $70,340 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PLAN: There is a problem with our primary care research: there is a lack of access to evidence about how to care for the multitude of patients with both chronic illnesses and mental health, behavioral health, ... Show more
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 7/30/2010
LIFEWORKS NW $70,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $66,253 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We will study several genetic tests related to colon cancer that may help doctors understand who will get colon cancer and what therapies some patients should receive. We will study who gets tested, how the genetic test result helps people decide what to
This spending item is part of a $3,991,808 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
Highland Haven $66,167 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
COALITION FOR A LIVABLE FUTURE $64,167 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION, THE $64,167 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OREGON $64,167 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER $64,167 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND (THE) $64,167 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $63,298 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students. The purpose of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act or ARRA) Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) funding is to augment the existing SDS grant with additional scholarship funds.... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/14/2010
S.S. PAPADOPULOS & ASSOCIATES, INC. $61,504 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This ARRA request is for an administrative supplement to an existing R01 project grant that is intended to accelerate the pace of research of a 3-YR project currently in progress. The overall aim of this project is basic research into the use of reactive
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National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $61,030 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Philippine Mollusk Symbiont ICBG (PMS ICBG) project links a biodiversity survey of marine mollusks in one of the world's hotspots of diversity, with drug discovery and enzyme bioprospecting aimed at bacterial symbionts of mollusks. Mollusks constitute National Institutes of Health 9/03/2009
PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC $60,178 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support With regard to the annual toll of people killed, malaria remains one of the deadliest diseases in the world today, as it has been so for thousands of years. For each of the 1 million people killed each year there are hundreds that are severely sickened by
This spending item is part of a $987,502 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $56,918 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The cochlear microcirculation is essential for normal hearing. A reduction of cochlear blood flow is involved in a number of hearing disorders. Pericytes, surrounding blood microvessels, play important roles for many organs in the regulation of microvesse National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
MT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE $56,786 ARRA - Health Information Technology Professionals in Health Care We aim to establish the OHSU HITECH Curriculum Development Center, one of five Curriculum Development Centers developing content for community colleges in order to rapidly train the health information technology (HIT) workforce under t... Show more
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Health and Human Services, Department of 4/02/2010
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $55,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We have updated the Queuosine (Q) subsystem in the SEED database and analyzed 727 genomes for the presence of tgt, the signature gene of the Q pathway encoding tRNA guanine transglycosylase (TGT), and the precursor biosynthesis genes (queCDEF) [3]. As sho
This spending item is part of a $75,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $54,358 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal stems from a longstanding collaboration between Central City Concern (CCC), an internationally-recognized community-based organization providing healthcare, housing, employment and addiction receovery support to over 13,000 inner city client
This spending item is part of a $400,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $54,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Hypertension affects approximately 25% of the adult population in the United States and is an important risk factor for death from stroke, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and chronic kidney disease. The distal convoluted tubule (DCT) of t National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $54,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Studies utilizing modern neuroimaging techniques have provided clear evidence that the adolescent brain is actively developing. This neurodevelopment, particularly in the frontal lobes, coincides with improvements in several areas of higher order cognitiv National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $53,941 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Regular physical activity and a healthy diet can prevent and treat illnesses and prolong life, yet most Americans do neither. This proposal, PHLAME II (Promoting Healthy Living: Assessing More Effects), extends our original Behavior Change Consortium, NIH
This spending item is part of a $99,806 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $53,807 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Osteoporosis and depression are increasingly important health problems in the United States. Reports demonstrating lower bone mineral density and increase fracture risk in patients with depression as compared with those without depression suggest that BMD National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
HUMAN SERVICES, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF $53,500 ARRA - Survey and Certification Ambulatory Surgical Center Healthcare-Associated Infection (ASC-HAI) Prevention Initiative Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) - Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative -- State Plan. This initiative will significantly expand the awareness of proper infec... Show more Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 11/06/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $51,381 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-term goal of this project is to understand how the properties of neurons are modulated by changes in oxygen concentration and cyclic GMP (cGMP). The intracellular messenger, cyclic GMP (cGMP), is a mediator of many physiological processes includi National Institutes of Health 7/20/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $50,961 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Alcoholism and alcohol abuse are complicating factors in most chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses. Alcohol physiological dependence and associated withdrawal episodes are thought to constitute a powerful motivational force that perpetuates continued National Institutes of Health 8/17/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $50,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The OHSU Cancer Institute is a matrix cancer center at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. In 1992, OHSU president Dr. Peter Kohler, committed to developing excellence in fundamental cancer research in this University, appointed National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $49,999 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Our goal is to understand how the immune system recognizes and initiates its attack on solid organ transplants. Our preliminary date indicate that there may be a division of labor in the T cell response to allogeneic heart transplants. In mice maintaine National Institutes of Health 8/02/2010
METRO $49,850 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $49,411 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support It is estimated that up to 50,000 children are newly diagnosed annually in the United States with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) after a urinary tract infection. It is known that in some of these children, VUR is associated with recurrent infection, pyelonep
This spending item is part of a $366,736 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/21/2009
UPSTREAM PUBLIC HEALTH $48,274 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $48,031 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Funds are requested to increase hours of current part-time staff to enable this program to retain two research technicians. These additional funds will allow us to avoid layoff of key personel, since these two postions currently are also supported by oth
This spending item is part of a $96,540 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 4/08/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $47,466 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this proposal is to determine the biological mechanisms that regulate male-typical sexual partner preference, and, thereby, to develop a better understanding of mammalian sexual differentiation and psychosexual development. The successful coun
This spending item is part of a $330,697 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $47,050 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Low back pain is one of the most important causes of functional limitation and disability, an Institute of Medicine priority condition, and it remains a particularly important problem for the elderly, an AHRQ priority population. While there are ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $9,887,064 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT 51J $43,750 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
MT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE $43,333 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students This award provides funding for students attending Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC). These MHCC students have been awarded federal financial aid, and are currently participating in a degree program on campus. This funding is specifically for ARRA - Sc... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/14/2010
ECOTRUST $43,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $42,085 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Research project: In vertebrates, sensory neurons of the parasympathetic epibranchial (EB) ganglia derived from ectodermal placodes are essential for the formation of cranial sensory systems such as smell, somatosensation, and taste. Despite their importa National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
CENTRAL CITY CONCERN $40,609 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal stems from a longstanding collaboration between Central City Concern (CCC), an internationally-recognized community-based organization providing healthcare, housing, employment and addiction receovery support to over 13,000 inner city client
This spending item is part of a $400,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2010
LYNCH MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION LLC $40,375 The contract includes, replacement of existing skylights, replacement of 3ea. Natural Gas Boilers and associated controls, modification of ductworks ,redesign of the outside air intake to the rooftop, conduit & wiring to the new boilers including new circ
This spending item is part of a $58,631 allocation. See details
Indian Health Service 6/17/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $40,040 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long term goals of our laboratory are to understand the molecular mechanisms responsible for cell fate specification and sensory patch formation in the developing mammalian inner ear. Progress toward understanding these essential aspects of inner ear National Institutes of Health 5/29/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $39,768 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support North American AIDS Cohorts Collaboration on Research and Design A disturbing increase in the incidence of non-AIDS-defining conditions including renal disease, metabolic and cardiovascular disease, and malignancies has been observed in recent years, and
This spending item is part of a $7,312,062 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
MT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE $39,083 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students ARRA Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $35,708 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support To respond to the needs for advanced infrastructure for collaborative biomedicine, the NCRR Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) was established to develop a federated and distributed infrastructure for the storage, retrieval, analysis, and docu
This spending item is part of a $492,873 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS, INC. $35,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE INC $35,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OPAL $35,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
PORTLAND, CITY OF $35,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $32,862 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Na dependent neurotransmitter transporters or neurotransmitter sodium symporters (NSS) are integral membrane proteins that play a critical role in terminating synaptic transmission and, thus, in shaping the duration and magnitude of synaptic signaling. Th National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $30,800 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support To investigate the role of the molecular motor, Myo1c, in hearing. The broad, long-range goal of this study is to determine the molecular mechanism of hearing and balance.
This spending item is part of a $339,011 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $29,574 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students The purpose of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act or ARRA) Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) funding is to augment the existing SDS grant with additional scholarship funds. Furthermore, ARRA-SDS funding will increase div... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE $28,586 ARRA - Health Information Technology Professionals in Health Care We aim to establish the OHSU HITECH Curriculum Development Center, one of five Curriculum Development Centers developing content for community colleges in order to rapidly train the health information technology (HIT) workforce under t... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,720,000 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 4/02/2010
PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC $27,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses Challenge Area (01) Behavior, Behavioral Change, and Prevention and specific Challenge Topic, 01-DA-104: Functional Roles of Glia-Derived Factors in Mediating Drug Abuse. In line with NIDA's mission to support research that will
This spending item is part of a $944,347 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $25,371 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement award supports the Accelerating Clinical Trials of Novel Oncologic Path Ways (ACTNOW) program for Protocol ADVL0813, which is a Phase I Study of IMC-A12 (Anti-Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Receptor Monoclonal Antibody) in Combination with C
This spending item is part of a $750,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/13/2009
NORTHWEST PEDIATRIC RESEARCH LLC $25,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children is a devastating illness. The prevalence of patients aged 0 ? 19 years with ESRD has grown 32% since 1990 and the mortality rate for children with ESRD receiving dialysis therapy is between 30 and 150 times that o
This spending item is part of a $525,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/27/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $24,725 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Genital infection with oncogenic types of human papillomavirus (HPV) is central to the development of invasive cervical cancer (ICC) and its immediate precursor, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grades II-III (CIN2-3). However, infection with these type
This spending item is part of a $807,494 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $23,803 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Tens of billions of dollars invested in research are spent ineffectively each year because of correctable research flaws. Comparative effectiveness reviews consistently note problems in the representativeness and quality of many studies. This pro... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,061,276 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 7/01/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $22,465 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement award supports Accelerating Clinical Trials of Novel Oncologic Path Ways (ACT NOW) program for Protocol ADVL0911, which is a Phase I Dose Escalation Study of Seneca Valley Virus (SVV-001), a Replication-Competent Picornavirus, in Relapsed/
This spending item is part of a $1,405,307 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/12/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $19,096 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Inflammation is a major component in the pathogenesis of brain injury during stroke. Cell signaling pathways prominently involved in the inflammatory cascade are initiated through Toll-like receptors (TLRs). Thus TLRs may be novel targets for stroke thera National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $18,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Animal studies have shown that T1AM has profound metabolic effects, including lipid alterations, and we now know that T1AM is tightly bound to apo B-100 in humans. Given the known role of apo B-100 In hyperlipidemia and metabolic disease, we believe that National Institutes of Health 12/03/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $17,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children is a devastating illness. The prevalence of patients aged 0 ? 19 years with ESRD has grown 32% since 1990 and the mortality rate for children with ESRD receiving dialysis therapy is between 30 and 150 times that o
This spending item is part of a $525,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/27/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $16,339 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Most patients with early chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) achieve durable responses to treatment with imatinib, a specific inhibitor of BCR-ABL, the tyrosine kinase responsible for CML. However, relapse is frequent in patients with advanced disease and usua
This spending item is part of a $132,917 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/01/2009
COUNTY OF MULTNOMAH $15,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--State Territories and Pacific Islands The overall goals of the G?Communities Putting Prevention to WorkG? initiatives are: G?? Increase levels of physical activity. G?? Improve nutrition. G?? Decrease obesity/overweight prevalence. G?? Decrease smoking prevalence and... Show more
This spending item is part of a $954,922 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2/06/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $13,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this application is to establish the Pacific Northwest Regional Center of Excellence (PNWRCE) in NIAID Region X. The two inter-related but distinct PNWRCE themes that we have selected reflect not only the scientific strengths at our institutio
This spending item is part of a $819,649 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $13,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in the United States and worldwide. Technologies to aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of glaucoma are of particular importance because the onset of disease is insidious and the visual damage is irreversible. Th
This spending item is part of a $110,387 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/03/2011
Community Health Partnership $12,818 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
CASCADIA BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, INC. $9,878 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work To promote healthy eating, the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) will create a Healthy Active Schools Network to work collaboratively with school districts and community partners to reduce the availability of unhealthy foo... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/18/2010
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY $0 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The genetic components of age-related disorders are of intense interest, and genome wide association studies (GWAS) are an important tool in identifying chromosomal loci that are associated with disease. Two of the major and interlinked challenges for suc
This spending item is part of a $4,753,886 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 11/25/2009
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS $0 ARRA legislation established a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. The Council is responsible for coordinating the comparative effectiveness research (CER) across relevant HHS and federal government agencies and making re
This spending item is part of a $599,458 allocation. See details
Program Support Center 5/13/2009