Block Grant U50CI024414

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,352,292 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), supports a research project to develop a high-resolution profiling and computational modeling framework for studying influenza virus-immune dynamics during natural infection. The project aims to address critical knowledge gaps in understanding the human immune response to influenza viruses, with the goal...

This federal Project Grant award of $146,922 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), supports research to define the factors that modulate the efficiency of influenza A virus (IAV) infection in a recipient host. The research team from Emory University will conduct intranasal and aerosol inoculations in guinea pigs to model direct and airborne transmission, using barcoded libraries of...

This $600,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to enhance influenza forecasting through an integrated platform for user-generated temporal forecasts. The project takes a participatory modeling approach to guide the construction of a human judgment platform that generates temporal forecasts of infectious disease trajectories. The key goals are to: 1) identify the factors and decision-making...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $2,074,701 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to Emory University. The project, titled "Drivers of Influenza A Virus Transmission in Humans," aims to address gaps in understanding the biological and physical processes underlying the transmission of influenza A virus in humans. The key objectives are to: 1) Define the dynamics of viral load, immunological...

Cooperative Agreement Summary Vanderbilt University received a $1.2 million Cooperative Agreement from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), awarded May 19, 2025, with completion targeted for April 30, 2030. This award supports the development of computational tools leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to design broadly protective influenza vaccines. The research...

This $788,406 project grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), will fund the development of a sensitive, direct reading bioaerosol detection platform to quantify airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2. Aerosol Devices Inc. will integrate their gentle condensation-growth capture sampler, which concentrates intact, viable virus particles into a small liquid volume...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $1,225,986.00 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.855 - Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research) supports a project titled "Computational Models of Adaptive Immunity to Influenza" at the University of Chicago. The project aims to investigate the factors that determine strong, durable, and broadly protective adaptive immune responses to influenza vaccination, particularly in individuals with prior influenza...

This $1 million project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program, will develop and implement next-generation syndromic surveillance tools and capabilities for the early detection of threatening agents or diseases to U.S. livestock production. Iowa State University will leverage its existing Swine Disease Reporting System network to refine syndromic...

The University of Missouri System, under a $650,000 project grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, is developing safe and effective live attenuated swine influenza vaccines using Newcastle disease virus (NDV) as the vector. The project aims to address the challenges with current swine influenza vaccines, which often fail to provide cross-protection against diverse virus strains. The key products and...

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $200,151 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of California, Los Angeles for the period of September 1, 2022 through February 29, 2024. The award will support development of a prototype pandemic early warning system powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and open-source technologies. The system will monitor biological,...