Cooperative Agreement SAQMIP23CA0004

The Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $144,967 cooperative agreement to Soter Bioconsulting under the Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033) to support developing high containment laboratory operations and maintenance plans and procedures in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. As part of the Global Threat Reduction program's efforts to reduce biological threats, this cooperative...

This $199,979 EAGER award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will develop an open-source large language model to rapidly identify, verify, prioritize, summarize, and predict outcomes of emerging disease threats across humans, animals, and plants. The project, titled "The BioThreats Emergence, Analysis, and Communications Network (BEACON)", aims to create a specialized AI/machine learning system that can process vast datasets to detect...

The Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $103,658 cooperative agreement to Health Security Partners under the Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033) to support the Regional Experts Group to Prevent Illicit Acquisition of Weaponizable Biological Materials, Equipment, and Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) Equipment from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The cooperative agreement will support the Regional Experts Group in...

This $215,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, under the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program (CFDA 19.901), is intended to equip partner nations with capabilities to identify and counter CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) disinformation, and foster a unified approach to integrate strategies into public messaging and crisis communications plans. The award recipient,...

Georgetown University will receive $123,895 through a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation under the Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033) to map and analyze existing legislative and regulatory frameworks related to biosecurity and biological threat reduction in Africa from a One Health perspective. The project will be performed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo from October 1, 2022 through December 31,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) provides $392,500 in funding to Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct research aimed at identifying predictive rules for cross-species viral transmission from wild mammals to humans. Over the 5-year project period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029, the research will focus on three key areas: 1) developing automated tools to curate...

This Project Grant award, valued at $1,500,314 and awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), is focused on engineering a hydrogel-based human immune organoid to generate antigen-specific germinal center (GC) B cells and enable forced affinity maturation ex vivo. The goal is to examine the in vivo engraftment of the engineered human B cells delivered via injectable gels. This innovative...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,814,550 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop next-generation biological security systems. This 5-year research effort aims to transition biological security from an operational technology platform to a biologically intrinsic informational technology platform. The project will involve the convergence of biological engineering, cybersecurity principles, and chemical...

The Research Foundation For The State University of New York will provide services to strengthen ministerial-level crisis response and attribution to weapons of mass destruction assassinations during state disinformation attacks in Estonia under a $209,000 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. The award, made under the Global Threat Reduction program of the Department of State's Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction,...

This $1,970,774 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation under the Office of the Biological Policy Staff (CFDA 19.334) program supports the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) in technical cooperation efforts to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and operationalize the UN Secretary-General's mechanism for investigating alleged use of chemical and biological weapons. The funding, effective...