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Project # Project Title Research Focus Area Research Program Administering IC Institution(s) Investigator(s) Sort descending Location(s) Year Awarded
1U01DA055359-01
18/24 Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium Enhanced Outcomes for Infants and Children Exposed to Opioids HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD) NIDA UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR BAKHIREVA, LUDMILA NICOLE (contact); LEEMAN, LAWRENCE M Albuquerque, NM 2021
NOFO Title: HEAL Initiative: HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (Collaborative U01- Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NOFO Number: RFA-DA-21-020
Summary:

The HEALthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium (HBCD-NC) will establish a normative template of developmental trajectories over the first 10 years of life. All sites in the HBCD-NC will carry out a common research protocol and will assemble and distribute a comprehensive and well curated research dataset to the scientific community at large. The HBCD-NC will collect neural, behavioral, physiological, and psychological measures, as well as biospecimens, to characterize neurodevelopmental trajectories. Most participants will be recruited in the second trimester of pregnancy, with a smaller subset recruited at birth, and followed for the first 10 years of life. The University of New Mexico Health Science Center study site is in a largely rural/mixed state with one of the highest rates of overdose in the nation. This site will enroll diverse mother-infant pairs and partners or caregivers, including Hispanic/Latinx and American Indian individuals.

3U01DA055359-03S1
HBCD Study Biospecimens Administrative Supplement: Resource Generation for Delivery Specimens Enhanced Outcomes for Infants and Children Exposed to Opioids HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD) NIDA UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR BAKHIREVA, LUDMILA NICOLE (contact); LEEMAN, LAWRENCE M Albuquerque, NM 2023
NOFO Title: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): HEAL Initiative: Biospecimen Collection in Pregnancy
NOFO Number: NOT-DA-23-005
Summary:

Opioid use during pregnancy is associated with adverse outcomes for pregnant individuals and offspring. The mechanisms through which these outcomes arise and the consequences of prenatal opioid exposure on child health and development remain largely unexplored. The HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study is a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of early child development that will assess a broad spectrum of biological, behavioral, social, and health factors among 7,500 pregnant women and their children from pregnancy to mid-childhood. This supplement will expand the biospecimen collection of the HBCD protocol at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to include delivery specimens (placenta, cord tissue, and cord blood). This will provide an unprecedented resource-generating opportunity for the larger scientific community to comprehensively evaluate mechanisms that mediate the connection between substance use during pregnancy and adverse neonatal, infant, and/or maternal health outcomes and inform innovative preventive strategies

1R34DA050237-01
6/6 Planning for the HEALthy Early Development Study Enhanced Outcomes for Infants and Children Exposed to Opioids HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD) NIDA UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR BAKHIREVA, LUDMILA NICOLE (contact); LEEMAN, LAWRENCE M; STEPHEN, JULIA MARIE Albuquerque, NM 2019
NOFO Title: HEAL Initiative: HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HEALthy BCD) (Collaborative R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NOFO Number: RFA-DA-19-029
Summary:

The Planning for the HEALthy Early Development Study will contribute to the design and recommended protocol for a future large-scale, multi-site research study to prospectively examine human brain, cognitive, behavioral, social, and emotional development of children beginning prenatally through ages 9–10 and to determine the impact of maternal pre- and postnatal substance use on short- and long-term development of children. The planning study will link investigators across 6 research sites who have complementary experience and expertise in the areas that are essential to designing the study. Planning activities will be accomplished using a coordinated set of 10 working groups. By the end of the planning phase, the 6 consortium sites will have produced and tested a recommended protocol for the future multi-site study and will have established feasibility of carrying out the study protocol at each of the 6 linked sites.

1U01DA055369-01
14/24 The Healthy Brain & Child Development National Consortium Enhanced Outcomes for Infants and Children Exposed to Opioids HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD) NIDA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO BANDOLI, GRETCHEN E (contact); GAHAGAN, SHEILA San Diego, CA 2021
NOFO Title: HEAL Initiative: HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (Collaborative U01- Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NOFO Number: RFA-DA-21-020
Summary:

The HEALthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium (HBCD-NC) will establish a normative model of developmental trajectories over the first 10 years of life. All sites in the HBCD-NC will carry out a common research protocol and will assemble and distribute a comprehensive research dataset to the scientific community. The HBCD-NC will collect neural, behavioral, physiological, and psychological measures, as well as biospecimens, to characterize neurodevelopmental trajectories. Most participants will be recruited in the second trimester of pregnancy, with a smaller subset recruited at birth, and followed for the first 10 years of life. The University of San Diego study site will recruit a diverse cohort of mother-infant pairs, including Hispanic and American Indian individuals.

3PL1HD101059-01S1
Supplement to increase the sample size of the Outcomes of Babies with Opioid Exposure (OBOE) study cohort. Enhanced Outcomes for Infants and Children Exposed to Opioids Advancing Clinical Trials in Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal (ACT NOW) NICHD Research Triangle Institute Bann, Carla Research Triangle Park, NC 2020
NOFO Number: PA-18-591
Summary:

Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) has emerged as a tragic by-product of the opioid epidemic. Newborns whose mothers used opioids while pregnant can experience symptoms of opioid withdrawal in the days following birth, such as tremors, irritability, seizures, sleep, digestive, and feeding problems. However, little is known about the effect of antenatal opioid exposure on longer-term infant development over time. To address this gap in understanding, the ACT NOW Longitudinal study is examining a crucial developmental period from birth to two years of life through a comprehensive battery of assessments, including MRI imaging, neurodevelopmental behavioral assessments, and family report measures. This longitudinal cohort study is projected to include a total of 375 infants, 250 who were exposed to opioids and 125 matched controls.