The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $2,156,152 Cooperative Agreement to South Dakota State University to develop surveillance tools and strategies for the rapid detection and characterization of new variants of SARS-CoV-2. The purpose of this award is to support an early warning system that can prevent or limit future SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks. This award is funded under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care grant...
The University of Georgia received a $311,882 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the federal Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care grant program (CFDA 10.025). The award period is from April 8, 2021 through April 7, 2022. Under this cooperative agreement, the University of Georgia will conduct research and surveillance activities related to emerging cattle diseases in the United States....
The University of Georgia (UGA) was awarded a $171,000 Cooperative Agreement by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care (CFDA 10.025) program. The primary purpose of this agreement is to provide programming support for the ongoing development and maintenance of APHIS's Identification Technology Program (ITP), specifically its ImageID and related image databases and...
The University of Georgia Research Foundation received a $176,860.75 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the federal grant program "Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care" (CFDA 10.025). The award will fund research from March 2021 through February 2024 to enhance swine diagnostics for the detection and differentiation of African swine fever and classical swine fever from other economically...
The University of Georgia will provide $200,000 in products and services to the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under a Cooperative Agreement awarded through the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). Specifically, the University will conduct surveillance of exotic vector ticks and other arthropods that threaten livestock health on wildlife in Texas and the eastern U.S. This will help...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative (CFDA 10.304) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation. This award aims to maintain and enhance the testing and response capabilities of the Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (AVDL) and the Tifton Veterinary Diagnostic and Investigative Laboratory (TVDIL) in Georgia. The primary objectives are to rapidly...
The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Purdue University $2,729,261 under the Cooperative Agreement to develop surveillance tools and strategies for the rapid detection and characterization of new SARS-CoV-2 variants through May 2025. This funding supports research under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025) to create a molecular detection method and user-friendly dashboard for SARS-CoV-2...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025), is directed toward accomplishing national surveillance and response activities for animal health, with a focus on poultry. The $618,320 award, effective from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, will enable the Georgia Poultry Improvement Association, Inc....
The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $2,408,770 cooperative agreement to Texas A&M University-Kingsville's Office of Research & Sponsored Programs to address gaps in SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and investigation activities in animals under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). Through the two-year award beginning August 1, 2023, the university will use minimally-invasive techniques to...
This 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) will provide $209,000.00 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) to enhance the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) laboratory information management systems (LIMS) to incorporate order messaging ingestion. The award period is from...