Department of Psychiatry

Ann Halbower received:

· Health Resources and Services Administration (Perrin, PI) 

Sponsor: Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P), Subcontract for Iron Treatment of Sleep Disorders in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, (Dr. Ann Reynolds, PI)

Objectives: To determine the effects of iron supplementation on sleep in children with autism, and the role of restless legs syndrome/periodic limb movements of sleep.

04/01/12 – 08/31/14

 

· R6130H (Halbower, PI)             

Infant Safe Sleep

Sponsor: Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation

Objectives: To assess SIDS risk factor awareness, attitudes, and beliefs of health care providers and parents in order to develop targeted SIDS prevention messages to the community.

02/15/12-02/15/17

 

· NIH/NCRR 1 UL1 RR024975-01 (Malow, PI)     

Administrative Supplement                                                    

Measuring Sleep in Autism: Use of Wireless, Comfortable, and Home-Based Tools          

Objective: To measure sleep non-invasively at home in children with autism

06/01/11-05/31/12

· Autism Speaks - Treatment Grant (Laudenslager, PI)                  

“Salivary Melatonin as a Biomarker for Response to Sleep Interventions in Children with Autism”

(This project develops and validates a non-intrusive method to collect salivary melatonin on filter papers using an approach previously validated for salivary cortisol.)

$53,089 Current year direct costs, 12/01/11 – 12/01/13

 

· 90YR0058 (Michelle Sarche, PI)                           

Administration for Children and Families       

“Evaluation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and the Emotional Availability Intervention: Mitigating Toxic Stress among American Indian Children in Early head Start.”

(This represents a partnership between the Cherokee Nation Early Head Start Program and the University of Colorado Denver, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health to understand the relationship between major environmental stressors and hair cortisol among American Indian children. )

$268,633  Current year directs costs, 09/30/11 – 09/29/16

 

· R01 CA126971 (supplement) (Laudenslager, PI) 

“A psychoeducation Intervention for BMT caregivers: Biobehavioral markers and outcome”

       (This is a supplement to a randomized control trial of a psychoeducation with stress management intervention          focused only on caregivers of blood or marrow transplant recipients.  This supplement focuses on inflammatory markers, glucocorticoid sensitivity, and SNP analysis of GRs in caregivers of the parent grant.)

$93,853 Current Year Direct Costs, 03/08/12 – 4/30/13

 

· 1 K07 AG030337   Program in Palliative Care Research Pilot Grant Award  (Laudenslager, PI)               

“This is a study of the health services utilization, both medical and behavioral, by caregivers randomized to a psychosocial support program or treatment as usual.” 

$14,000 Current Year Direct Costs, 8/01/12 – 7/31/13 

· K01 NIH/NICHD (Lunkenheimer, PI)

Parent-Child Biobehavioral Coregulation and Child Maltreatment Risk

$640,733, 2011-2016   

· Autism Speaks

Multimodal neuroimaging of motor dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders.      

$114,000, 02/01/12-01/31/14

 

· UC Denver CCTSI

Multimodal neuroimaging of motor dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders.

$30,000, 04/12-03/13

· William R. Hummel Homocystinuria Research Fund

Elucidating Pathogenesis in Homocystinuria:Towards the rational design of novel treatments.

$120,000