Funding
RESEARCH GRANTS
ACTIVE GRANTS:
FEDERAL:
Grant Title: Targeted auditory plasticity training to improve central hearing in mild TBI
Funding Agency: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, Clinical Trial Award – Funding Level 1, Department of Defense-Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
Grant Role: PI Percent Effort: 30%
Funding Amount: $500,000 Dates: 9/1/24-3/31/27 (submitted 9/28/23, notice of award 3/5/24, pending final protocol approval by U.S. Army Medical Office of Human Research Oversight)
Brief Detail: This project tests the central hypothesis that brief training given to mTBI patients induces auditory plasticity to mitigate impairments in recognizing speech-in-noise and spatial hearing. The training being testes can potentially be used to optimize warfighter effectiveness and return to duty for service members with mild traumatic brain injury and associated hearing loss.
Project #: Grant # W81XWH-19-2-0067
Funding Agency: Medical Research Acquisition Activity (Department of Defense & Department of Veterans Affairs)
Grant Title: Long-Term Impact of Military-Related Brain Injury Consortium (LIMBIC) Award, Longitudinal Study
Time period: 10/01/2019 – 09/30/2025
Grant role and % Effort: Co-Investigator (20% effort)
PI: Consortium PI: David Cifu; Study PI: William Walker
Budget & Total Costs: $367,000
Brief Detail: The goals of this consortium are to: 1) learn more about how concussion affects the brain 2) find
out the effects of concussion later in life (e.g., risk for dementia); 3) understand whether some
service members and veterans are more likely to be affected and 4) identify the best treatments for concussion.
Project #: Grant # NCT04428034
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging
Grant Title: Learning Skills Together: A Randomized Control Trial of Complex Care Skills Intervention to Improve ADRD Caregiver Self-Efficacy
Time period: 4/1/22-3/31/27
Grant role and % Effort: Site PI (15% effort)
PI: Dr. Kylie Meyer, UT Health School of Nursing
Budget & Total Costs: $3,235,716.00
Brief Detail:
A clinical trial to build caregivers’ self-efficacy in the performance on complex care, Learning Skills Together (LST), a UT Health San Antonio Caring for the Caregiver program comprised of a multidisciplinary team will implement a pre- and post-test design to test the Learning Skills Together program using Self-Efficacy Theory, such as peer-learning, modeling, and assignments.
PRIVATE:
Funding Agency: Brain Health Consortium, University of Texas at San Antonio
Grant Title: Effect of mild traumatic brain injury on predictive processing in language comprehension
Time period: 10/22-4/23
Grant role and % Effort: Consultant ($2500 fee)
Budget & Total Costs: $15000.00
Brief Detail: This goal of this study is to better understand the role of sentence context on language comprehension in adults with mild traumatic brain injury. We will use EEG/ERP methods to record continuous brain activity while individulas with and without TBI read or listen to target sentences with target probes. We will develop an NIH R21 application based on our seed-grant pilot data.
Funding Agency: Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Grant Title: Brain and Behavioral Indexes of Language Comprehension in Adults with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Time period: 4/22-4/23
Grant role and % Effort: PI
Budget & Total Costs: $1500.00
Brief Detail: This study is an extension of Dr. Rocio Norman’s KL2 Mentored Research Career Development Program at NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. This extension is necessary because the recruitment period for the KL2 award was cut short due to lab closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The study will use the event-related potentials (ERPs) technique to better understand the underlying cognitive mechanisms of language comprehension problems.
COMPLETED GRANTS:
Project #: Grant # PT17006
Funding Agency: Department of Defense-Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
Grant Title: Implementation of a Brief Cognitive Rehabilitation Intervention to Enhance Efficiency of Service Delivery for Service Members and Veterans With mTBI: Core-SCORE
Time period: 3/20-3/23
Grant role and % Effort: Co-Investigator (20% effort)
PI: Dr. Blessen Eapen, South Texas Veterans Health Care System
Budget & Total Costs: $1,471,456.54
Brief Detail:
A clinical trial that proposes to identify key ingredients of an evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation protocol to develop a streamlined version that is feasible and acceptable to Service Members and Veterans with mild TBI.
Project #: NIH Grant KL2 TR002646
Funding Agency: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Grant Title: Language Performance in Adults with mTBI/ Institute for Integration of Medicine & Science: A Partnership to Improve Health (parent grant)
Time period: 05/01/18-04/30/23
Grant role and % Effort: Dr. Joel Tsevat (PI) Norman (Scholar)
Budget & Total Costs: $356,092 (75% salary support 2.5 years and research budget)
Brief Detail: During my KL2, I used innovative methods such as discourse analysis and electroencephalogram (EEG) measures to richly characterize language output and shed light on the underlying cognitive mechanisms of language performance after mTBI in order to standardize assessment for mTBI-related communication.
Project #: NCT04428034
Funding Agency: National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, The Emory Roybal Center for Dementia Caregiving Mastery
Grant Title: A pilot evaluation of Learning Skills Together: A intervention to teach complex care provision to caregivers of persons living with Alzheimer’s Disease
Time Period: 9/2/20-8/15/21
Grant role: Co-Investigator (8% effort)
Budget & Total Costs: $114,947
Project #: N/A
Funding Agency: UT Health San Antonio School of Health Professions Seed Grant
Grant Title: Language Performance in Adults with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury- A Pilot Study
Time Period: 03/12/18-10/30/19
Grant role: PI
Budget & Total Costs: $10,000
Project #: N/A
Funding Agency: Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics
Grant Title: Cognitive Skills Workshop for Service Members and Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury
Time Period: 09/12/18-9/1/19
Grant role: Faculty mentor
Budget & Total Costs: $1500.00
Project #: N/A
Funding Agency: Texas Association of Allied Health Professionals Research Grant
Grant Title: Language Performance in Adults with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury- A Pilot Study
Time Period: 09/12/18-9/1/19
Grant role: PI
Budget & Total Cost: $1500