Cooperative Agreement 0997461714CA

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028) provides $248,315 to Colorado State University to improve management of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild cervid populations in the Rocky Mountain National Park. Key activities include: Using paired-pool RT-QuIC and/or PMCA techniques to systematically sample and test feces and plant samples in the park for CWD...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided 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), supports research and development of strategies to manage Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in farmed white-tailed deer herds. The $249,820 award, granted on September 15, 2024, will fund the development and implementation of an approach that utilizes ante-mortem IHC rectal biopsy...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028), supports research to investigate the cellular mechanisms of chronic wasting disease (CWD) infection in free-ranging mule deer populations. The $307,095.54 award was granted to Colorado State University on September 1, 2024, with a completion date of August 31, 2025. This project aims to advance the...

This $156,267 federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028) will support research on chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild white-tailed deer populations. The key objectives are to verify the CWD status of 100 positive and 100 negative wild deer samples using real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC) assays, optimize and validate RT-QuIC on...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $365,846, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program, will support research to deepen the understanding of the mechanisms of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) transmission in deer populations. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will conduct this 5-year project, which aims to address key knowledge gaps around CWD, including prion detection and variation, environmental transmission,...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) awarded a $140,306 Cooperative Agreement to the Wyoming Game & Fish Commission Fiscal Division to validate the RT-QuIC assay for chronic wasting disease (CWD) monitoring in Wyoming. The funding will support wildlife research and surveillance activities over a 12-month period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2025. This award falls under the USDA APHIS Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028),...

This $113,585.74 federal Project Grant awarded on January 1, 2024 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Multistate Conservation Grant Program (CFDA 15.628) will support the Wildlife Management Institute, Inc. in developing a comprehensive chronic wasting disease (CWD) information and data sharing platform for state and provincial wildlife agencies across North America. The key objectives of the award are to: 1) create best practices for CWD data capture, use, and communication; 2)...

This Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will provide $381,451 to Louisiana State University to increase chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing capacity in Louisiana. CWD is a fatal prion disease affecting cervids that is difficult to detect without widespread surveillance testing. Under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program, the University will purchase an additional automated...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028) provides $150,000 to the Wyoming Game & Fish Commission for the project "PROTECTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES: INVESTIGATING ONSET & DURATION OF CWD VIA RT-QUIC (WGFD FILE NO. R01534)". The award period runs from Sep 30, 2024 to Sep 30, 2026 and supports research to investigate the onset and duration of chronic...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $205,616, was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The award supports the Department of Livestock Montana in managing a chronic wasting disease (CWD) outbreak in an alternative livestock herd within the state. Key activities to be performed include: Conducting...