Tanvi Bhatt awarded $3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIH)
Introduction
Tanvi Bhatt, professor and director of the Cognitive Motor Balance Rehabilitation Lab, has recently received a $3,090,725 (Over 5 years) National Institute on Aging (NIH) grant for a new five-year project, “Aging and task-specific training to reduce falls” (2R01AG050672 - 06A1), starting 9/12/24.
The project is a renewal of her previously NIA-funded clinical trial (R01AG050672, 2016-2021), which investigated the effects of mixed perturbation training on fall risk reduction in community-dwelling older adults. Expanding upon this line of research, Dr. Bhatt’s newly-funded clinical trial will examine the fall prevention benefits of a more clinically-translatable and cost-effective balance training paradigm (Task-Specific Balance Training) in older adults with high fall risk, compared to treadmill perturbation training and conventional balance training.
This project will involve an impressive team of inter-disciplinary collaborators from AHS (Edward Wang, Shuaijie Wang), the UIC College of Engineering Computer Science Department (Fabio Miranda) and the UIC College of Medicine (Tanjeev Kaur).