Federal grants to Boston VA Research Institute, Inc.
Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts received $22.9 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 20 awards. Its largest program was Military Medical Research and Development, with $6.5 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $2.2 million.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated November 7, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$22.9 million
- Awards20
- Awarded in FY 2025$2.2 million
- Largest award$2.9 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 5 | $1.6 million |
| FY 2022 | 9 | $3.6 million |
| FY 2023 | 11 | $7.7 million |
| FY 2024 | 10 | $7.8 million |
| FY 2025 | 4 | $2.2 million |
Programs that fund Boston VA Research Institute, Inc.
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Military Medical Research and Development | 5 | $6.5 million |
| Aging Research | 4 | $5.1 million |
| Mental Health Research Grants | 4 | $5.0 million |
| Human Genome Research | 2 | $2.2 million |
| Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research | 1 | $966,550 |
| Vision Research | 1 | $922,896 |
| Computer and Information Science and Engineering | 1 | $305,020 |
| Trans-NIH Research Support | 1 | $300,000 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Health and Human Services | 14 | $16.1 million |
| Department of Defense | 5 | $6.5 million |
| National Science Foundation | 1 | $305,020 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long-term psychological and physical health outcomes following military deployment: the veterans after-discharge longitudinal registry (project valor) | Military Medical Research and Development | August 21, 2023 | $2.9 million |
| Preventable frailty ancillary study - abstract frailty is a state of depleted physiologic reserve that is common in older adults. To date there are no proven therapies to prevent frailty beyond recommendations to adhere to a healthy lifestyle. Frailty is associated with chronic diseases, such as car | Aging Research | February 15, 2024 | $2.6 million |
| Real time neurofeedback, its neurotransmitter underpinnings, and therapeutic effects, in clinical high risk individuals - clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis states are symptomatic, dynamic periods that occur before psychosis onset and are subjects of intensive research. The focus on chr is drive | Mental Health Research Grants | August 17, 2023 | $2.4 million |
| Development and preliminary evaluation of a self-directed internet-based cognitive processing therapy intervention | Military Medical Research and Development | June 7, 2024 | $2.3 million |
| Sleep-dependent mechanisms of improving cerebral blood flow and reducing alzheimer's disease progression by photobiomodulation with near-infrared light - brain photobiomodulation (PBM) using near-infrared (NIR) light is a promising new approach for treating alzheimer’s disease (AD). Despite the high | Aging Research | May 4, 2023 | $2.1 million |
| Real-time fmri neurofeedback as a tool to mitigate auditory hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia - this is a resubmission application, originally in response to RFA-MH-16-406 and consists of R61 and R33 phases. Auditory verbal hallucinations (AH) have long been a hallmark of schizophrenia ( | Mental Health Research Grants | October 29, 2021 | $2.1 million |
| Pragmatic randomized trial of polygenic risk scoring for common diseases in primary care | Human Genome Research | August 11, 2021 | $1.6 million |
| Neural correlates of sleep homeostasis - the broad objective of this study is to identify the neural substrate(s) underlying the homeostatic sleep response (HSR), i.e. Enhanced sleepiness following prolonged sleep deprivation (SD). Sd is experienced by many due to lifestyle or vocational demands and | Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders | June 29, 2021 | $1.6 million |
| Hemoglobin A1C variability as a risk factor for diabetes complications | Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research | February 18, 2021 | $966,550 |
| Developmental prosopagnosia subtypes: validation, neural mechanisms, and differential approaches to treatment - the goal of this proposal is to better characterize the cognitive and neural basis of face perception heterogeneity in developmental prosopagnosia (DP) and to test whether potential percep | Vision Research | February 7, 2022 | $922,896 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. get?
$22.9 million in 20 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. the most?
The Department of Health and Human Services, with $16.1 million in 14 awards. The Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation follow.
What is Boston VA Research Institute, Inc.'s largest federal grant?
$2.9 million under Military Medical Research and Development, with its first action in the period on August 21, 2023. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Boston VA Research Institute, Inc.?
Its largest are Military Medical Research and Development, Aging Research and Mental Health Research Grants.
Other grant recipients in Jamaica Plain
- Volunteers of America of Massachusetts, Inc.
- Victory Programs, Inc.
- Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention, Inc.
- Innotech Precision Medicine, Inc
- Upstream Carbon, Inc.
- Asymmetrex, LLC
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
- Hyde Square Task Force Inc
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