Problem: Both the early detection of disease and its monitoring during and after treatment are essential to pediatric health care. The most useful techniques are noninvasive, inexpensive, and may be done in the home, but different conditions have different thresholds of advantageous cost and convenience.
Proposals: Proposals are sought for new or improved methods of measurement or assessment for conditions relevant to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta patients and clinicians. These include, but are not limited to:
- Novel diagnostic devices, sensors, related data analytics and data visualization for use in clinical care or at home
- Environmental sensing platforms, devices, related data analytics and visualization to understand the environment and exposures in daily life or in the clinical setting
- Model systems for pediatric diseases or procedures that are currently not well understood or that care can be improved by the use of these models
- Measurement of disease burden
- Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
- Post-treatment fate of cellular therapies
- Novel or optimized molecular imaging technologies
- Rapid bedside diagnosis
- Multivariate data acquisition and analysis.
- Wearable and mobile technologies
- Approaches and novel technologies to generate new patient data, including environmental, psychological, behavioral and social data, to improve diagnosis and treatment
- Approaches and novel technologies to facilitate tele-medicine, remote diagnosis, monitoring and treatment
Issues of direct relevance to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta patients will be judged to be of highest priority.
Up to two years of funding may be requested. Please check back to see when this grant is available.
Amount: up to $75,000 per year, up to two years
