i4Kids Pilot Grant Team awarded $3.1 million NIH Grant!

One of the first i4Kids Pilot Grant teams have been recently awarded a $3.1 million grant by the National Institutes of Health and National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute. The five-year grant is to support research of a device to measure lung health using a smartphone. 

i4Kids awarded their pilot grant for the project titled "Acoustic Waveform Respiratory Examination (AWARE) for Pediatric Inflammatory Airway Diseases" in July 2020. The pilot grant team included Wei Chen, PhD (Professor of Pediatrics, Biostatistics and Human Genetics at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine), Wei Gao, PhD (Associate Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering) and Erick Forno, MD, MPH (Professor of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine). The purpose of i4Kids pilot grants is to encourage new cross-disciplinary collaborations that focus on advancing research in infection, inflammation, and immunity in children. 

The pilot team later received a $125,000 grant from the University of Pittsburgh's Clinical and Translational Science Institute in 2021 to help gather more preliminary data for the NIH proposal.

Read more about their i4Kids Pilot Project here

Read more about their new NIH award here

i4Kids would like to congratulate the team on their exciting research progress and new NIH award!