Block Grant HDTRA11610050

This $650,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund research to develop optimal response plans for rapidly eliminating African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) in feral swine populations across different U.S. environments. The awardee, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS), will collect data on feral swine movement in response...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $821,639.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) supports research and analysis on the risk of African Swine Fever (ASF) spreading to the United States from the Dominican Republic and other areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. The key objectives are to: a) critically review the current understanding of ASF risk...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), aims to investigate the role that feral swine populations and their habitat play in the epidemiology of African Swine Fever (ASF) virus. The $570,502 award to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services will determine population density metrics and movement...

The Swine Health Information Center, Inc. was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to conduct research on the stability and detection of African swine fever virus in soybean products fed to pigs. The grant was awarded under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (AFRI CGP) on March 1, 2022 for a period ending February 28, 2026. The AFRI CGP aims to provide funding for...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $225,000 project grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop and evaluate an mRNA vaccine against African Swine Fever (ASF). The goal of this 2-year project is to engineer vaccine antigens using lipid nanoparticle (LNP) mRNA formulations to stimulate strong antibody and T-cell immune responses, which could lead...

This cooperative agreement award from the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides $163,520.24 in funding to Stichting VU, also known as Vrije Universiteit, located in the Netherlands, to conduct research under the Wildlife Services federal grant program (CFDA #10.028). Specifically, the awardee will evaluate gene expression patterns along the outbreak front of African Swine Fever Virus in European wild boar populations. They will perform whole...

This $244,724 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) will fund the development of a website dashboard to calculate the number of Certified Swine Sample Collectors (CSSCs) needed to effectively respond to an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak in the United States. The project will build upon previous USDA-funded efforts to...

Arizona State University was awarded a $743,994 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a portable diagnostic test for African swine fever over a four-year period from May 15, 2022 to May 14, 2026. The grant is being funded through NIFA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (AFRI, CFDA No. 10.310), which supports research, education, and extension projects in food and agricultural...

This $1,199,971 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) supports a range of activities to address African Swine Fever. Key products and services to be delivered include: Rapid risk assessment using epidemiological methodologies, raising awareness and preparedness for African Swine Fever, training for emergency first responders,...

Biostone Animal Health LLC was awarded an $800,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The three-year award will support the development of diagnostic tools and monoclonal antibodies for African swine fever virus. Specifically, the company will further develop, optimize, and validate two enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) to differentiate infected...