Cooperative Agreement 5980726001
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop rapid detection technologies and decision support systems to mitigate food supply chain threats from Salmonella contamination. The one-year project will investigate multiple transformative sensing technologies, including surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy sensors, impedance-based biosensors, and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) provides $550,000 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to develop a prototype for rapid diagnosis of foodborne pathogens. The goal is to create a new one-test screening method that can identify bacterial contaminants in food in less than an hour, compared to current multi-step tests that take hours or days. This rapid diagnostic technology is aimed at...
- This $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Industrial Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), funds the development of a rapid, simple, and low-cost Salmonella detection and quantification test. Secure Food Solutions, Incorporated will optimize a multi-layer 96-well microplate method to demonstrate 90% sensitivity and specificity for Salmonella in raw poultry and processing environment samples within 15 hours without pre-enrichment. They...
- Massachusetts Lab Food Safety Testing Program – Cooperative Agreement Summary The Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory (MA SPHL) received a $300,000 cooperative agreement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Food and Drug Administration Research program (CFDA 93.103), awarded September 20, 2025, with a completion date of June 30, 2030. Under this Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (U19) award, MA SPHL will enhance human and animal food surveillance through risk-based...
- This three-year, $446,377 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of new technologies for the detection of emerging microbial threats at Purdue University. Funded through NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the "SENTINELS: Living-Tissue for Doppler Detection of Emerging Microbial Threats" project will apply Biodynamic Doppler Profiling to detect bacterial and viral infections in living tissue samples. Researchers aim to enhance the sensitivity of the...
- The Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) Biochemistry Laboratory received a $440,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Food and Drug Administration Research program (CFDA 93.103) to enhance state food safety testing capabilities. The award, announced on September 25, 2025, supports a five-year project period through June 30, 2030, and funds the CDA's participation in the Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM) initiative to strengthen the...
- Washington State University received a $650,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), awarded September 15, 2025, with a completion date of September 14, 2028. The project will develop a real-time, on-site verification platform to assess surface sanitation effectiveness in food processing environments. The platform integrates a biomimetic surrogate...
- Summary The Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS) received a $1,165,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Food and Drug Administration Research program (CFDA 93.103), awarded on September 20, 2025, with a completion date of June 30, 2030. DCLS will maintain and expand its International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 17025 accreditation scope to include up to three new food...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Texas A&M Agrilife Research received a $300,000 Project Grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), awarded February 1, 2026, with a completion date of January 31, 2028. The research builds upon Dr. Li's previously developed nanotechnology for capturing and releasing cells from biological samples and adapts this methodology to detect bacterial pathogens in food...
- Summary The Pennsylvania State University, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, received a $110,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Food and Drug Administration under the Food and Drug Administration Research program (CFDA 93.103), awarded September 20, 2025, with a completion date of June 30, 2030. Under this award, the institutions will continue generating whole genome sequencing (WGS) sequences of foodborne pathogens through the FDA's GenomeTrakr program (Analytical Track...
ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES TO FOODBORNE HAZARD DETECTION & CHARACTERIZATION FOR IMPROVING FOOD SAFETY - 1: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION, DETECTION (LABEL-BASED AND LABEL-FREE), AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROBIAL, CHEMICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERN IN FOODS THAT CAN BE IMPLEMENTED FOR IMPROVED FOOD SAFETY AND FOOD DEFENSE. 1A. SPECTROSCOPY-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF FOODBORNE PATHOGENS, TOXINS, AND CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS. 1B. ANTIBODY-BASED DETECTION OF FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND TOXINS. 1C. DNA - BASED DETECTION OF FOODBORNE PATHOGENS. 1D. PHAGE-BASED DETECTION OF FOODBORNE PATHOGENS. 1E. CELL-BASED DETECTION OF FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND TOXINS. 1F. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PATHOGEN DETECTION. 2: APPLICATION OF CFSE DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGIES EITHER ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH EXISTING METHODS TO EVALUATE MICROBIAL POPULATIONS AND THE MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF FOODS DURING PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING. 2A. EXPAND THE DATABASES FOR BARDOT AND HESPI TECHNIQUES USING PURE CULTURES OF KNOWN MICROORGANISMS (FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND INDICATOR MICROORGANISMS). 2B. APPLY BARDOT AND HESPI TECHNIQUES TO ANALYZE MICROBIAL POPULATIONS IN FOODS.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($42k) | 8/3/21 | ||
| Not listed | $1.5m | 6/16/20 | ||
| Not listed | $844.8k | 5/16/19 | ||
| Not listed | $653.2k | 8/16/18 | ||
| Not listed | $818.6k | 6/8/18 |