{"id":24347,"date":"2024-10-24T14:54:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=24347"},"modified":"2024-10-24T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T19:54:46","slug":"tanvi-bhatt-awarded-1-5-million-grant-from-the-u-s-department-of-defense","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/tanvi-bhatt-awarded-1-5-million-grant-from-the-u-s-department-of-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanvi Bhatt awarded $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense"},"template":"","news_categories":[17,18],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-24347","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-grants","news_categories-research"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/physical-therapy\/directory\/bhatt-tanvi\/\">Tanvi Bhatt<\/a>, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cmbrl.ahs.uic.edu\/\">Cognitive Motor Balance Rehabilitation Lab<\/a>, has been awarded a $1,599,997.00 (over three years) grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to conduct her new project: \u201cFunctional Balance Intervention (FBI) for Physical and Cognitive Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis\u201d (MS230142, Start Date: 9\/1\/24 ).<\/p>\n<p>The three-year project will investigate the effects of a custom-developed four-month balance and exercise program (FBI) on physical function, cognitive function, dual-tasking ability and quality of life among people with Multiple Sclerosis, compared to a control group completing a four-month stretching program.<\/p>\n<p>This collaborative effort includes esteemed co-investigators from AHS (<a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/kinesiology-nutrition\/directory\/motl-robert\/\">Robert Motl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/physical-therapy\/directory\/aruin-alex\/\">Alex Aruin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/occupational-therapy\/directory\/peterson-elizabeth-walker\/\">Elizabeth Peterson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/directory\/wang-chih-hsiung\/\">Edward Wang<\/a>) as well as prominent researchers from the UIC College of Medicine (Olusola Ajilore and Jeffrey Loeb).<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"Tanvi Bhatt","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24348,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24347\/revisions\/24348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=24347"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=24347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}