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NIH funding notice PAR-18-186

Development of Socially-Assistive Robots (SARs) to Engage Persons with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD), and their Caregivers (R43/R44 Clinical Trial Optional)

Closed on July 5, 2020.

Posted
November 28, 2017
Close date
July 5, 2020
Activity codes
Not stated on the notice page
Institutes taking part
Not stated on the notice page

Read the notice on Grants.gov · NIH Guide page

The notices it replaced

Its page was not saved, so the notices it replaced are not known.

Who won it before

4 competing awards (new and renewals) from FY2014 to FY2025 under this notice and the notices it replaced: $3,060,259 in first-year total cost, median $472,933.

Most frequent study sections

  1. Special Emphasis Panel[ZRG1 ETTN-G (12)]2
  2. Special Emphasis Panel[ZRG1 ETTN-G (55)]1
  3. Special Emphasis Panel[ZRG1 RPHB-Y (12)]1

Most frequent institutions

  1. ADVANCED BRAIN MONITORING, INC.1
  2. CARE.COACH CORPORATION1
  3. CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC.1
  4. VECNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.1
Competing awards under PAR-18-186 and the notices it replaced
FYProjectPIsInstitutionFirst-year costStudy section
2020VGo-Assist, A Mobile Telepresence Robot to Engage Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias2R44AG060781-02NORMANDIN, STEVEVECNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., MA$1,764,396ZRG1
2019Socially-Assistive Robots for Alzheimer’s (SARA)1R43AG066288-01NIEHAUS, JAMES MCHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC., MA$535,315ZRG1
2019A Specialized Automatic Speech Recognition and Conversational Platform to Enable Socially Assistive Robots for Persons with Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia1R44AG062014-01A1WANG, VICTORCARE.COACH CORPORATION, CA$349,998ZRG1
2018Interactive Companion Robot for Preventing Neuro-Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's and Other Dementias1R43AG061994-01BERKA, CHRISADVANCED BRAIN MONITORING, INC., CA$410,550ZRG1

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