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Award ID | Description | Recipient | Total Value | Awarding Agency | Funding Agency | Set Aside | NAICS | PSC | Award Date | Start Date | End Date | |
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| THE HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT (HWE), ALSO KNOWN AS THE HEALTHY HIRED EFFECT, IS A BIAS THAT CAUSES MORBIDITY OR MORTALITY TO BE LOWER AMONG WORKERS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE GENERAL POPULATION, BECAUSE UNHEALTHY INDIVIDUALS ARE SCREENED FROM OR LEAVE THE WORKPLACE [1 3]. THE HWE MAY PERSIST IN A WORKFORCE IF THERE ARE FACTORS RELATED TO BOTH THE END OF EMPLOYMENT AND MORBIDITY(MORTALITY). CERTAINLY, THIS IS PLAUSIBLE FOR CANCER. SEVERAL METHODS HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR CONTROLLING FOR THE HWE IN OCCUPATIONAL COHORT STUDIES [4], THESE INCLUDE: 1. USE OF INTERNAL CONTROL POPULATION(S); 2. PARTITIONING DATA FOR EXPOSED AND INTERNAL CONTROLS INTO DISCRETE FOLLOW-UP PERIODS TO CONTROL FOR PAST EXPOSURE AND EMPLOYMENT HISTORY; 3. LAGGING EXPOSURE SO THAT IT IS ONLY CONSIDERED FOR THE HEALTHIEST PARTICIPANTS; 4. CONTROLLING FOR CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATUS USING A COVARIATE FOR ACTIVE VS. FORMER EMPLOYMENT, WHICH WILL CONTROL FOR EMPLOYEES WHO (A) LEAVE WORK DUE TO HIGHER EXPOSURES AND (B) FACE A GREATER RISK SINCE THEY ARE NO LONGER EMPLOYED; 5. RESTRICTING THE ANALYSES TO LONG-TERM SURVIVORS FOR WHICH THE HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT IS BELIEVED TO BE MINIMAL. THIS APPROACH FILTERS OUT EMPLOYEESWITH SHORT WORK HISTORIES WHO HAVE A GREATER PROPENSITY FOR MORTALITY. | THE METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $239,894 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Sep 17, 2014 | Sep 1, 2014 | Feb 28, 2017 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF QFT FOR TBESC STUDY | THE METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $115,636 | CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION | CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION | — | 541712 | AJ91 | Sep 23, 2013 | Sep 19, 2013 | Sep 29, 2015 | ||
| THE PURPOSE OF THE COMPUTATION CORE TASK IS TO PROVIDE COMPUTATIONAL AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT FOR DATA FUSION AND INTEGRATION OF EXISTING CELLULAR AND ANIMAL MOLECULAR/GENOMIC DATA FOR HEAVY ION EXPOSURES WITH CANCER PHENOTYPES, TO DEVELOP ASSOCIATIVE MODELS OF RISK BASED ON PATHWAY ACTIVATION AND DIMENSIONAL REDUCTION AND DATA TRANSFORMATIONS, TO DEVELOP AND VALIDATE ALGORITHMS FOR DATA FUSION AND INTEGRATION OF MOLECULAR/GENOMIC DATA SPAWNED IN HEAVY ION EXPERIMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF TISSUE DAMAGE, CELL-CYCLE, CELLULAR APOPTOSIS AND SURVIVAL, CELLULAR STRESSRESPONSE, DNA DAMAGE-REPAIR, AND ANGIOGENESIS AND NEOVASCULARIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEEDING OF NEW METASTASIS, TO DEVELOP BIOLOGICALLY-MOTIVATED KINETIC MODELS OF SPACE RADIATION-INDUCED CARCINOGENESIS BASED ON CELLULAR GROWTH AND PATHWAY ACTIVATION, AND TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE ON EXPERIMENTAL CRITERIA FOR REDUCING RISK UNCERTAINTY. DURING THE BASE YEAR, THE COMPUTATION CORE WILL FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT OF THE DATA REPOSITORY AND ELECTRONIC LIBRARY DESCRIBING ITS CONTENTS, AND ON DEVELOPMENT OF KINETIC MODELS OF CARCINOGENESIS HINGED TO CELLULAR AND ANIMAL DATA. | THE METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $419,447 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Sep 24, 2012 | Jul 31, 2012 | Nov 30, 2017 | ||
| TAS::75 0849::TAS CONTINUATION OF FOLLOW-UP OF DES-EXPOSED COHORTS | THE METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $882,019 | NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH | NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH | — | 541990All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | B537SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- MEDICAL/HEALTH | Sep 29, 2010 | Sep 30, 2010 | Sep 18, 2015 | ||
| TAS::75 0943::TAS QUALITY ASSURANCE ON INTERNATIONAL LABORATORIES | THE METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $133,951 | CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION | CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION | — | 541990All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Jul 1, 2010 | Jul 1, 2010 | Sep 30, 2011 | ||
| CONTINUATION OF FOLLOW-UP OF DES-EXPOSED COHORTS | THE METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $2,866,848 | NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH | NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH | — | 541710 | AN12HEALTH R&D SERVICES; HEALTH CARE SERVICES; APPLIED RESEARCH | Sep 28, 2005 | Sep 30, 2005 | Sep 29, 2010 |