Funding

Current

2025: Developmental Disability Abuse Prevention and Response, Whole Health Consortium, Virginia Tech, PI

2022-2024: Determining Capacity and Informing Down syndrome Assent Strategies (DECIDAS), NIH-NICHD R21, Co-I (PI: Combs)

2022-2025: Medications for Obstructive Sleep Apnea to Improve Cognition in Children with Down Syndrome (MOSAIC DS), NIH-NHLBI R33, Co-I (PI: Combs)

2022-2024: Building capacity to include people with IDD in health-related research, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (P-CORI), Co-I (PI: Shirai)

Completed (shortened list)

2023-2024: Bio5 and Udall Foundation Fellowship, Understanding children’s abuse reporting: neuroscience and policy analysis

2016-2023: Memory measures for clinical trials in Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome, NIH/NICHD RO1, PI, $2,980,267, 20% effort 

2019-2023: Memory measures for clinical trials in Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome, NIH/NICHD Competitive Supplemental RO1, PI, $506,640 10.4% effort 

2016-2023: Memory measures for clinical trials in Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome, NIH/NICHD diversity supplement for Annalysa Lovos, PI, $56,000, 0% effort 

2019-2023: fNIRS as an outcome measure of the prefrontal hemodynamic response in Down syndrome, NIH/NICHD R21, MPI, $61,252, (PI: Raitano-Lee), 10.4% effort

2020-2023: Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health, CRE (PI Wendy-Parent Johnson), $25,000, 3% effort

2021-2022: Program Evaluation for Sexual Abuse Prevention, AHCCS contract, (PI Parent-Johnson), $25,000

2013-2018: Expressive language sampling as an outcome measure, NIH/NICHD RO1, Co-I and PI of Subcontract (PI: Abbeduto), $595,927, 10.4% effort

2015-2016: Proof of concept funding for a memory assessment for preschool-aged children and special populations, Tech Launch Arizona, PI, $75,000, no faculty salary

2015-2016: Sleep quality as a marker of neural development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PI, $100,000, 3.8% effort

2012-2014: High-density EEG biomarkers of memory dysfunction in Down syndrome, Fondation Jérôme Lejeune, Co-I (PI: Nadel), $46,503, 5% effort

2012-2013: Pre-clinical cognitive measurement validation study for Down syndrome (BP25612), F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., contract PI (co-Is: Rice and Nadel), $41,959, 6% effort

2000-2003: The development of spatial cognition in autism, NIH/NIMH National Research Service Award