Cooperative Agreement NU51IP000335

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award in the amount of $200,000 supports research to investigate how different stakeholders, from government officials to the general public, use and perceive information about the evolving H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks in U.S. dairy cattle. The project aims to enhance national health interests by providing insights to guide better communication and decision-making for safeguarding...

The Indiana State Poultry Association has been awarded a $205,344 Cooperative Agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 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 purpose of this 1-year agreement is for the association to conduct national surveillance and response activities for avian health, including active and passive surveillance sampling for avian...

This $2,340,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a collaborative research project between the United States, United Kingdom, and China to understand the impact of poultry vaccination on the evolution and ecosystem dynamics of H5Nx avian influenza viruses. The key objectives are to: (1) measure the antigenic diversity of recent H5 influenza viruses, (2) identify H5 viruses evolved from vaccine protection, and (3)...

This $8,536,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283) aims to REINFORCE IMMUNIZATION SYSTEMS FOR CONSEQUENTIAL GEOGRAPHIES(RISE4CGS) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. The award recipient, African Field Epidemiology Network LTD (AFENET), is a non-profit organization based in Uganda that specializes in public health initiatives across sub-Saharan Africa. Over...

This $2,074,701 five-year federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) will support a multidisciplinary research program at Emory University to study the biological and physical drivers of influenza A virus transmission in humans. The key objectives of the research are to: Define the dynamics of viral load, immune responses, and infectious aerosol production in humans...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,999,998 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the development of the International Center for Avian Influenza Pandemic Prediction and Prevention. The University will provide research services focused on avian influenza virus modeling, data integration, and decision support systems development. Numerus Inc., the University of Kansas Center...

This federal 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), is focused on developing data science systems to enhance surveillance and emergency response for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and African swine fever (ASF). The $315,551.39 award to Utah State University will establish data pipelines and dashboards to: 1) plan and view HPAI surveillance in...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded a 5-year, $1,082,429 Cooperative Agreement to Duke University to develop multiscale computational models that predict the effectiveness of influenza vaccines. The project, titled "Multiscale Modeling of Influenza Neutralizing Antibody and Fc Effector Biology," aims to address the challenges of seasonal influenza vaccines being only 10-60% effective and providing limited protection against pandemic strains....

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 U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $234,158 cooperative agreement to the Texas Poultry Improvement Association under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this 1-year agreement, effective April 1, 2024, is to conduct national surveillance and response activities for foreign animal diseases in poultry, specifically highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and virulent...