SBIR/STTR Research Award
The Madrina Network Web Portal
Award amount
$225,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- MATIELLA, ANA CONSUELO AND ASSOCIATES
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- R5CSS2Z8K5S7
- Solicitation number
- PA13-234
- Topic code
- NCI
Research abstract
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Madrina Network Web Portal: A Healthy Weight - Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Latinas. This Fast Track application addresses a serious health disparity - the crisis of obesity among Latinas in the United Statesand the dire need of a timely and culturally and linguistically appropriate weight loss intervention. This innovative research grant is in direct response to NCI's goals to improve health communications by raising public awareness, overcome barriers of effective communication in the media and expand health communications research, as well as addressing inadequate collaborative infrastructures to actuate positive dietary changes a specific barrier that NCI stated needed to be addressed in culturally diverse populations. The inspiration for this innovative digital health product and approach to weight health among Latinas comes from the apparent failure of existing weight loss interventions to address the needs of Latinas, the lack of culturally an
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- The Madrina Network Web Portal
- Bilingual Foto-tabloids in Community Newspapers
- Bilingual Web-Novelas to Reach Young Latinas with Cervical Cancer Information
- Health Fotonovela Strips for Spanish Language Newspapers
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Mini-reflectance confocal microscope (Mini-RCM) for aiding skin cancer diagnosis and treatment
- Development of small molecule therapeutics targeting AR-V7 for prostate cancer
- Decentralized Clinical Trial of Effectiveness of EnergyPoints App to Guide Acupressure Use for Fatigue and Sleep Disturbances in Cancer Survivors
- Optimized targeted radiotherapy of pancreatic cancer
- Adaptive imaging for pioneering multiplexed spatial profiling of tumors and tissues for cancer research and diagnosis
Research funding history
5 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2009–2016). Reported award amounts total $1,952,690. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services