# PPE Request

> **NIH NIH S10** · RHO FEDERAL SYSTEMS DIVISION, INC. · 2021 · $373,601

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT
To meet the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) requested and received
an administrative supplement to NIAID grant U19AI118608 “Ontogeny of Human Vaccine Responses” to fund
the Immunophenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort (IMPACC) Clinical and Data Coordinating Center
(CDCC). The IMPACC study is an observational cohort collecting detailed clinical, laboratory, and radiographic
data in coordination with biologic sampling of blood and respiratory secretions and viral shedding in nasal
secretions in order to identify immunophenotypic and genomic features of COVID-19–related susceptibility
and/or progression in order to generate hypotheses for effective host-directed therapeutic interventions, to help
to prioritize proposals for such interventions, and/or optimize timing for administration of host-response
directed therapeutics.
Many sites in the IMPACC study lacked sufficient PPE to protect all study site staff interacting with hospitalized
COVID-19 patients. Therefore, the IMPACC CDCC sought additional resources to distribute to the participating
sites. RhoFED responded to this need by procuring the necessary additional PPE, which consisted of masks,
masks with eye shields, gowns, gloves, and face shields.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10261164
- **Project number:** 1S10AI162135-01
- **Recipient organization:** RHO FEDERAL SYSTEMS DIVISION, INC.
- **Principal Investigator:** Karen Kesler
- **Activity code:** S10 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $373,601
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-02-05 → 2022-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10261164

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10261164, PPE Request (1S10AI162135-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10261164. Licensed CC0.

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