Cooperative Agreement AP24WSNWRC00C001

This USDA SBIR Phase II project grant awarded to Apex Bait Technologies, Inc. aims to develop an improved snail and slug control bait. The $650,000 award, made on September 1, 2024, will enable the company to refine a prototype bait developed in Phase I to make it more cost-effective, stable, and compliant with regulations, as well as test its effectiveness and impact on non-target species. The goal is to create a commercially viable bait that is more efficient, economical, and environmentally...

This $525,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, CFDA 11.021, supports Live Advantage Bait, LLC, a woman-owned small business, in developing an innovative manufacturing methodology for their FDA-indexed slow-release spawning implants for aquaculture and fisheries conservation. The project aims to demonstrate the manufacturing process can produce a stable hormone implant, as well as conduct...

This Project Grant award, valued at $718,404.00 and provided by the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351), aims to generate a new high-diversity outbred mouse population, the Wild Mouse Diversity Panel (WMDP), as a community resource for mouse genetics research. The key goals include: Initiating the WMDP population from four genetically diverse wild-derived inbred mouse strains of the Mus musculus domesticus subspecies, with routine genomic...

Ridge Quest Inc. was awarded a $600,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an improved mating disruption product for oriental fruit moth. The SBIR program aims to support technological innovation through federal research funding. Under the award, Ridge Quest will develop a new mating disruption product called Tangler OFM that utilizes a bolas-style capsule to rapidly and...

This Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research (BRAG) program (CFDA 10.219) provides $649,414 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop tools and technologies for monitoring and improving the use of precision-guided sterile insect technique (PGSIT) and other CRISPR-based genetic technologies to control the spotted wing drosophila pest. Key deliverables include: A diagnostic system called...

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...

This USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Integrated Programs (CFDA 10.303) Project Grant award of $629,998 to Mississippi State University addresses critical issues facing the dry-cured pork industry's reliance on methyl bromide fumigation. The project aims to develop integrated pest management strategies to control the mite Tyrophagus putrescentiae without using methyl bromide. Key research objectives include: 1) Integrating nanoparticles and reinforcing agents into...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the CFDA 15.608 Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species program provides $835,696 to Island Conservation to validate aerial baiting and non-target species mitigation strategies for eradicating invasive Norway rats from Great Sitkin Island in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The project aims to determine optimal rat bait application rates, identify the upper elevation range of rats, trial bait...

Novoclade, Inc. received a $181,500 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The funding supports the development of an innovative insect control method using genetically engineered sterile male Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) flies. Novoclade's approach aims to simplify the implementation of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) for SWD, a major agricultural pest causing an...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $196,570 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The purpose of this award is to enhance current mitigation strategies for invasive fruit flies through the development of a control device that will kill mating females. The project will field test an auto-dissemination device that...