| Sargent Investigator | Title of Project | Foundation/Agency | Funds Awarded this Period | Year of Award | Total Anticipated Funds |
| Defne Abur, doctoral student of physical therapy | Longitudinal Changes to Speech in Parkinson’s Disease Phenotypes | NIH/National Institute on Deafness & Communication Disorders |
$34,674 | 3 of 3 | $102,474 |
| Ashlyn Aiello, doctoral student of physical therapy | A propulsion neuroprosthesis for clinic and community-based walking rehabilitation after stroke | American Heart Association | $31,520 | 2 of 2 | $63,040 |
| Louis Awad, associate professor of physical therapy | Development and translation of the reNeu propulsion rehabilitation platform | Johns Hopkins University/NIH | $853,971 | 1 of 4 | $3,359,086 |
| Non-Significant Risk (NSR) Device Determination – ReWalk 7 Usability study (CLN0043) | ReWalk Robotics, Inc. | $80,801 | 1 of 1 | $80,801 | |
| Development, Evaluation and Translation of Robotic Apparel for Alleviating Low Back Pain | President and Fellows of Harvard College | $185,771 | 3 of 3 | $512,062 | |
| Connected software-hardware platform for enabling research, development, and translation of tele-rehabilitation of soft robotic systems | President and Fellows of Harvard College | $405,000 | 4 of 4 | $755,000 | |
| Development and Evaluation of Music-Based Digital Therapeutics | MedRhythms Inc. | $984,852 | 3 of 3 | $984,852 | |
| Helen Barbas, professor of health sciences | Prefrontal Anatomic Pathways in Executive Control | NIH/NIMH | $564,843 | 5 of 5 | $3,436,559 |
| Barbas/Medalla/Zikopoulos | Primate inhibitory neurons in hippocampal CA3-CA1 intrinsic circuits | NIH/NIMH | $500,439 | 1 of 5 | $3,962,278 |
| Virginia Best, research associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences | Benefits of gaze-informed hearing-aid processing for enhancing conversational speech | William Demant Foundation | $210,433 | 1 of 2 | $210,433 |
| Spatial Hearing in Speech Mixtures | NIH/National Institute on Deafness & Communication Disorders |
$371,250 | 3 of 5 | $225,841 | |
| Erin Carpenter, doctoral student in speech, language and hearing sciences | Bilingualism as a cognitive reserve factor: the behavioral and neural underpinnings of cognitive control in bilingual patients with aphasia | NIH/National Institute on Deafness & Communication Disorders | $37,328 | 1 of 2 | $74,656 |
| Ashley Collimore, doctoral student of physical therapy | From post-stroke assistance to rehabilitation: Neuromuscular adaptations to walking with a soft robotic exosuit | NIH/National Institute of Child Health & Human Development | $42,811 | 2 of 2 | $88,131 |
| Claire Cordella, postdoctoral fellow in speech, language and hearing sciences | Detecting and classifying non-fluent speech in aphasia using machine learning | NIH/NIDCD | $80,772 | 2 of 2 | $157,574 |
| Kimberly Dahl, doctoral student in speech, language and hearing sciences | Articulatory and prosodic sensorimotor adaptation in speaker-listener interactions | NIH/NIDCD | $37,051 | 2 of 3 | $111,153 |
| Terry Ellis, professor and chair of physical therapy | Study in Parkinson Disease of Exercise Phase 3 Clinical Trial: SPARX3 | Northwestern University – NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke | $72,780 | 3 of 3 | $264,734 |
| Boston Roybal Center for Active Lifestyle Interventions | Brandeis University | $21,412 | 5 of 5 | $112,166 | |
| Walking and mHealth to Increase Participation in Parkinson Disease (WHIP-PD) | NIH/NICHHD | $525,809 | 6 of 6 | $3,188,067 | |
| Emily Evans, assistant professor of physical therapy | Learrning Health Systems Training to Improve Disabiilty and Chronic Condition care (LeaHD) | Brown University | $79,662 | 1 of 1 | $79,662 |
| Participatory Community Integration for TBI Survivors: Development of a Computer Adaptive Test | The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation | $45,646 | 1 of 3 | $136,939 | |
| LeaRRN – Learning Health System Scholar | The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation | $12,500 | 1 of 1 | $12,500 | |
| Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (CeKTER) | ACL/NIDILRR | $499,533 | 4 of 5 | $2,498,285 | |
| Marianne Farkas and E. Sally Rogers, research professor, BU Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation | Improved Employment Outcomes for Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities | ACL/NIDILRR | $874,575 | 5 of 5 | $4,373,277 |
| Farkas/Russinova | Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging Among Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses | ACL/NIDILRR | $874,506 | 1 of 5 | $4,374,305 |
| Claudio Ferre, assistant professor of occupatinal therapy | Codevelopment of Sensory and Motor Function in Infants At Risk for Cerebral Palsy | NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke | $210,600 | 1 of 2 | $210,600 |
| Daniel Fulford, associate professor of occupational therapy | Stable and dynamic neurobehavioral phenotypes of social isolation and loneliness in serious mental illness | The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital | $132,248 | 3 of 5 | $734,710 |
| Supplement: Neurobehavioral mechanisms of social isolation and loneliness in serious mental illness | The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital | $69,533 | 2 of 4 | $209,425 | |
| Neurobehavioral mechanisms of social isolation and loneliness in serious mental illness | The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital | $275,433 | 3 of 5 | $1,603,557 | |
| Understanding Social Situations (USS): Training to improve social function in people with psychosis | VA Connecticut Healthcare system | $21,165 | 3 of 3 | $54,555 | |
| Collaborative Research: Passive Sensing of Social Isolation and Loneliness: A Digital Phenotyping Approach | NIH/NIMH | $280,456 | 5 of 5 | $1,157,237 | |
| Simone Gill, associate professor of occupational therapy | Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) | Trustees of Tufts College Inc | $23,740 | 1 of 1 | $23,740 |
| Validation of a Remote Speech/Motor Assessment Protocol for Neurodevelopmental Disorders | Massachusetts General Hospital | $23,740 | 1 of 1 | $23,740 | |
| Turning the TiDe: Training Diverse Clinician Scientists in Rehabilitation Research | University of Pittsburgh | $5,344 | 2 of 5 | $31,904 | |
| Play & Learning Across a Year (PLAY) | New York University | $18,527 | 4 of 4 | $18,527 | |
| Frank Guenther, professor of speech, language and hearing sciences | Cortical Mechanisms Underlying Human Vocal Turn Taking | New York University/NIH/NIDCD | $80,538 | 4 of 5 | $330,362 |
| Sequencing and Initiation in Speech Production | NIH/NIDCD | $611,162 | 4 of 5 | $3,117,097 | |
| Cortical-Basal Ganglia Speech Networks | MGH/NIH | $249,559 | 4 of 5 | $880,198 | |
| Elizabeth Hoover, clinical professor of speech, language and hearing sciences | Understanding the Mechanisms of Change and Optimal Parameters in Conversation Treatment for Aphasia | NIH/NIDCD | $638,992 | 4 of 5 | $3,217,654 |
| Nichole Houle, postdoctoral fellow of speech, language and hearing sciences | Effect of producing a desired fundamental frequency on measures of vocal hyperfunction in transgender speakers | NIH/National Institute on Deafness & Communication Disorders | $69,500 | 2 of 2 | $137,456 |
| Dorothy Hutchinson, executive director BU Center for Rehabilitation | The Learning and Working During the Transition to Adulthood RRTC | ACL/NIDILRR | $21,396 | 5 of 5 | $165,005 |
| Jana Iverson, associate dean for research and professor of physical therapy | The Role of Autonomic Regulation of Attention in the Emergence of ASD | University of South Carolina | $21,041 | 2 of 5 | $105,205 |
| Walking, exploration, and language in high and low risk infants | University of Pittsburg | $45,182 | 1 of 1 | $45,182 | |
| Feasibility and outcome measures for infants with Down syndrome: Advancing clinical trial readiness for a harness-based mobility intervention | NIH/National Institute of Child Health & Human Development | $477,482 | 2 of 2 | $477,482 | |
| Variation in early motor function in autism, cerebellar injury and normal twins | The Washington University | $74,108 | 3 of 4 | $319,237 | |
| Karen Jacobs, clinical professor of occupational therapy | Feasibility Study: Investigation of the use of Korro platform and traditional occupational therapy (OT) intervention regimens for children with developmental challenges |
Korro AI | $22,500 | 1 of 1 | $22,500 |
| Gerald Kidd, professor of speech, language and hearing sciences | Central Factors in Auditory Masking | NIH/NIDCD | $559,870 | 7 of 7 | $2,799,650 |
| Top Down Control of Selective Amplification | NIH/NIDCD | $647,305 | 6 of 6 | $3,577,984 | |
| Swathi Kiran, professor of speech, language and hearing sciences | Computational modeling of language impairment and control in bilingual individuals with post-stroke aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders | NIH/NIDCD | $679,899 | 1 of 5 | $3,185,065 |
| Naturalistic Neuroimaging for Presurgical Language Mapping | The Brigham and Women’s Hospital | $36,885 | 2 of 5 | $198,125 | |
| Morphosyntactic Production in Stroke-induced Agrammatic Aphasia: A Cross-linguistic Machine Learning Approach | University of Oslo | $38,859 | 1 of 1 | $38,859 | |
| Functional Reorganization of the Language and Domain-General Multiple Demand Systems in Aphasia | NIH/NIDCD | $624,183 | 6 of 6 | $3,157,580 | |
| Academy of Aphasia Research and Training Symposium | NIH/NIDCD | $38,878 | 2 of 5 | $195,158 | |
| Deepak Kumar, associate professor of physical therapy | A multimodal high-tech/high-touch intervention to address racial inequalities in management of chronic knee pain and depressive symptoms | Rheumatology Research Foundation | $199,976 | 2 of 2 | $399,952 |
| Music-based, walking rhythm modulating wearable sensor system for people with knee osteoarthritis | MedRhythms Inc. | $9,945 | 2 of 2 | $9,945 | |
| Mindfulness and Exercise for Chronic Pain Management in Knee Osteoarthritis | Pfizer, Inc. | $15,000 | 4 of 4 | $214,999 | |
| Wearable Sensor-based Outcomes Following Physical Therapy in Knee Osteoarthritis: A Feasibility Study (WESENS-OA) | Pfizer, Inc. | $628,675 | 4 of 4 | $817,277 | |
| Cara Lewis, associate professor of physical therapy | Hip structure and function in young female athletes | NIH/NIAMSD | $165,000 | 1 of 5 | $795,275 |
| Etiology of cam morphology in adolescent athletes | Rheumatology Research Foundation | $200,000 | 2 of 2 | $200,000 | |
| Lindsey Locks, assistant professor of health sciences | Tuberculosis: Learning the Impact of Nutrition | Boston Medical Center Corporation/Warren Alpert Foundation | $29,996 | 3 of 3 | $51,330 |
| Iron-deficieny and Iron-deficiency Anemia in Pregnancy and Infant Health in India | Thrasher Research Fund | $19,410 | 5 of 5 | $26,750 | |
| Katherine Marks Hartigan, postdoctoral fellow of speech, language and hearing sciences | Concurrent Validity of an Automated Objective Outcome for Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia | American Speech Language Hearing Foundation | $10,000 | 1 of 1 | $10,000 |
| Validation of an Automated Acoustic Outcome Measure for Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia | NIH/NIDCD | $72,200 | 2 of 2 | $142,074 | |
| Megan McCrory, assistant research professor of health sciences | Traditional and New Dietary Assessment Methods (TANDAM) for Personalized Nutrition | University of Hawaii | $122,862 | 2 of 2 | $540,181 |
| A Human-Mimetic AI System for Automatic, Passive and Objective Dietary Assessment | University of Pittsburgh | $14,075 | 4 of 4 | $44,857 | |
| Sensor-based Just-in Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) Targeting Eating Behavior | NIH/Uiversity of Alabama | $130,148 | 4 of 4 | $516,306 | |
| An Innovative Passive Dietary Monitoring System | Imperial College/Gates Foundation | $96,972 | NC Ext #1 | $96,972 | |
| Nicola McKeown, clinical associate professor of health sciences | Development of a dietery treatment program for type 2 diabetes remission: the Lifestyle Empowerment Approach for Diabetes Remission (LEADR) Program | American College of Lifestyle Medicine/Ardmore Institute of Health | $16,217 | 2 of 2 | $16,217 |
| Systematic Review of Dietary Fiber and Health Outcomes in Children and Database Enhancements | Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences | $68,303 | 1 of 1 | $68,303 | |
| Hilary Miller, doctoral student of speech, language and hearing sciences | Predictors of Speech Motor Sequence Learning in Neurological Disorders | NIH/NIDCD | $47,214 | 3 of 3 | $138,130 |
| Kathleen Morgan, professor of health sciences | Actin and Focal Adhesion Remodeling as Therapeutic Targets in Cardiovascular Disease | NIH/NIA | $529,157 | 5 of 5 | $2,635,822 |
| Kathleen Morgan/Katie Kaplan, doctoral student | Investigating the effects of Entrada Therapeutics EEV2-PMO 23 on Vascular Smooth Muscle andCastric Smoot Muscle | Entrada Therapeutics | $61,770 | 1 of 1 | $61,770 |
| Jasmine Mote, research assistant professor of occupational therapy | Longitudinal assessment of specificity in adolescent-dog relationships and adaptive coping for youth with social anxiety | Trustees of Tufts College, Inc. | $20,312 | 1 of 4 | $101,560 |
| Cardiovascular regulation through social contact: Examining the impact of loneliness on heart rate variability in schizophrenia | American Psychological Foundation | $14,480 | 2 of 2 | $14,480 | |
| Kim Mueser, professor of occupational therapy | Early Stage Identification and Engagement to Reduce the Duration of Untreated Psychosis: Evaluating the Impact of Screening and Systematic Communication | NIH | $20,585 | 2 of 5 | $102,925 |
| Telehealth Adaptation of Group and Family Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth at Risk for Psychosis | NIH | $20,586 | 2 of 3 | $61,755 | |
| Comparative effectiveness of cognitive enhancement therapy vs. social skills training in serious mental illness | PCORI | $3,511 | 5 of 3 (extension, but funded) | $71,607 | |
| Integrated Physical and Mental Health Self Management | PCORI | $38,567 | 5 of 5 | $365,030 | |
| Integrated Physical and Mental Health Self Management | PCORI | $9,184 | 6 of 5 (extension, but funded) | $365,030 | |
| Robin Newman, clinical associate professor in occupational therapy | A Pilot Program to Assess and Treat Breast Cancer Lymphedema in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients at a Safety Net Hospital | Boston Medical Center Corporation | $25,594 | 1 of 1 | $25,594 |
| Tyler Perrichione, associate professor in speech, language and hearing sciences | Predicting Language and literacy growth in children with ASD using statistical learning | Northeastern Univeristy/NIH-NIDCD | $147,385 | 1 of 1 | $147,385 |
| Franchino Porciuncula, research scientist of physical therapy | Amplifying physical activity through digital music therapeutic in Parkinson disease | Brandeis University – NIH/National Institute on Aging | $123,750 | 2 of 2 | $123,750 |
| E. Sally Rogers, senior research scientist in psychiatric rehabilitation | Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Health and Function of People with Psychiatric Disabilities | ACL/NIDILRR | $2,936 | 4 of 5 | $55,381 |
| Juliana Ronderos, postdoctoral fellow in speeach, lanaguage and hearing sciences | Longitudinal trajectories of white matter and reading development in bilingual children | NIH/NICHHD | $76,080 | 1 of 2 | $76,080 |
| The Role of Parental Factors in Predicting Language Abilities among Spanish-English Bilingual Children | American Speech Language Hearing Foundation | $10,000 | 1 of 1 | $10,000 | |
| Emily Rothman, professer and chair of occupational therapy | Healthy Relationships on the Autism Spectrum: Feasibility and Target Engagement | NIH/National Institute of Mental Health | 218,886 | 2 of 3 | $721,548 |
| An e-learning training for college sexual assault response service providers to meet the needs of autistic students | Organization for Autism Research, Inc. | 39,999 | 2 of 2 | $39,999 | |
| Understanding the Physical and Psychological Health and Wellness Needs of Minor Sex Trafficking Victims | Northeastern University | 149,833 | 3 of 3 | $149,833 | |
| Strength at Home Couples Program: Examining Sexual Aggression | Department of Defense/Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity | 142,421 | 2 of 2 | $142,421 | |
| Building Capacity for CER/PCOR Participation among BIPOC Adults on the Autism Spectrum | Boston Medical Center Corporation | 16,229 | 2 of 2 | $114,972 | |
| Zlatka Russinova, assistant research professor of occupational therapy and director of reseach, BU Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation | Enhancing Supported Employment Services for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities to Address Workplace Prejudice and Discrimination | ACL/NIDILRR | $499,523 | 3 of 5 | $2,497,095 |
| Russinova/Rogers | Advanced Research Training Program in Employment and Vocational Rehab | ACL/NIDILRR | $149,745 | NCE | $749,183 |
| Michael Scimeca, doctoral student of speech, lanague and hearing sciences | Assessment of real-time reading comprehension in bilinguals with aphasia | NIH | $37,328 | 1 of 2 | $74,938 |
| Cara Stepp, professor of speech, language and hearing sciences | Sensorimotor mechanisms of vocal hyperfunction | The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital | $443,807 | 2 of 5 | $239,955 |
| Comprehensive Assessment of Speech Physiology and Acoustics in Parkinson’s Disease Progression | NIH/National Institute on Deafness & Communication Disorders | $691,289 | 2 of 5 | $3,239,054 | |
| Advanced Research Training in Communication Sciences Disorders | NIH/NIDCD | $542,460 | 3 of 5 | $2,499,677 | |
| Advanced Research Training in Communication Sciences Disorders | NIH/NIDCD | $572,449 | 4 of 5 | $2,802,480 | |
| Effects of exogenous testosterone therapy on communication in gender diverse speakers | NIH/NIDCD | $560,533 | 3 of 5 | $2,732,851 | |
| Objective Measures for Clinical Assessment of Voice Disorders | NIH/NIDCD | $551,404 | 4 of 5 | $2,744,284 | |
| An RCT of a telemedicine intervention for hypokinetic dysarthria in PD | VA Boston Healthcare System | $55,228 | 4 of 4 | $275,006 | |
| Project 2 – Sensormotor Mechanisms of Vocal Hyperfunction | NIH/NIDCD Subaward with MGH | $443,807 | 2 of 5 | $2,239,956 | |
| Boston Speech Motor Control Conference | NIH/NIDCD | $5,720 | 6 of 5 | $17,360 | |
| Stepp/Guenther | Voice and Speech Sensorimotor Control in Parkinsons Disease | NIH/NIDCD | $478,992 | 6 of 6 | $2,600,995 |
| LaDora Thompson, professor of physical therapy | Cellular Mechanisms of Frailty Onset | University of North Dakota | $350,557 | 2 of 5 | $700,637 |
| Academic Leadership Award – The Translational Rehabilitation in Geroscience Initiative | NIH/National Institute on Aging | $144,594 | 4 of 5 | $790,466 | |
| Vojtech | SBIR Phase II: Adaptive & Individualized AAC | NIH/NIDCD/Altec | $81,669 | 2 of 2 | $108,358 |
| Maura Walker, research assistant professor of health sciences | Integrative omics approach to elucidate diet quality-blood pressure relations | American Heart Association | $77,000 | 3 of 3 | $217,080 |
| Metabolic signatures of the MIND diet to objectively investigate with all cause and Alzheimer’s Disease dementia and PET imaging of Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | $54,137 | 1 of 2 | $108,274 | |
| Jenna Zajac, doctoral student of physical therapy | Musical rhythm synchronization as a mechanism to optimize gait in the real-world in persons with Parkinson disease | NIH/National Institute of Child Health & Human Development | $47,661 | 2 of 2 | $87,979 |
| Vaseilos Zikopoulos, associate professor of health sciences | Short and long range cortical pathway and axon pathology in ASD: high resolution microscopic histopathology combined with machine learning and deep neural network analyses | Simons Foundation | $697,809 | 2 of 2 | $697,809 |
| Organization and Circuit Interactions of Thalamocortical Attentional Networks in Health and Disease | NIH/NIMH | $460,899 | 5 of 5 | $2,373,013 | |
| Organization and Circuit Interactions of Thalamocortical Attentional Networks in Health and Disease | NIH/NIMH | $824,998 | 1 of 5 | $3,933,576 | |
| Jennifer Zuk, assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences | Investigating parental oral reading prosody in relation to preschool children’s emergent language and literacy skills | The Dyslexia Foundation | $5,000 | 2 of 2 | $5,000 |
| Neurobiological Basis of Prosody as a Biomarker for Autism Spectrum Disorder | The Hartwell Foundation | $100,000 | 2 of 3 | $300,000 |