This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) provides $199,907 in funding to Cornell University to develop a system for monitoring antimicrobial use (AMU) in dairy cattle. The project aims to create an AMU monitoring system that incentivizes farmer participation, automates data collection, and protects farmer privacy, in order to enable national-level AMU monitoring and support antimicrobial stewardship efforts....
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Research program (CFDA 93.103) provides $198,770 to Mindwalk Consulting Group LLC to expand an ongoing, nationally representative system for collecting on-farm antimicrobial use (AMU) data in the U.S. poultry industry. The project aims to improve antimicrobial stewardship by developing methods to collect quantitative AMU data, including information on disease indications, administration details, and therapeutic...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $842,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Cooperative Extension Service federal grant program (CFDA 10.500) to support the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) program. FARAD is a collaborative university-based food safety program coordinated by veterinary faculty and staff at multiple U.S. colleges of veterinary medicine to provide accurate, timely,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Food and Drug Administration Research program (CFDA 93.103) provides $913,626.00 to Kansas State University to develop and validate pain models in food animals. The goal is to improve on-farm animal welfare by controlling pain in a manner that is safe for the animal and consumer, and compliant with U.S. regulations. The project will focus on establishing optimal pain biomarkers and evaluating the efficacy of...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) provides $100,000 to Kansas State University to assess the correlation between antimicrobial resistance genes and susceptibility phenotypes for Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) isolates. The project will isolate approximately 20 ECC samples from diagnostic specimens submitted to the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (KSVDL), obtain genome sequences, and...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to promote increased adoption of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) practices in the dairy industry. The grant, awarded to Michigan State University from July 2024 to June 2026, will: Determine barriers to changing antimicrobial usage (AMU) by surveying farmers and veterinarians in Michigan and Wisconsin to identify their beliefs,...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded a $162,501 Cooperative Agreement under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, for a pilot study on veterinary antifungal use and resistance. The two-year project, beginning August 1, 2024, will assess veterinarians' knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to antifungal resistance, risk factors for fungal infections,...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $120,000 Project Grant under the Cooperative Extension Service (CFDA 10.500) program to Kansas State University (KSU) to fund the FARAD program, a national food safety initiative that has been in place for over 40 years. The key objectives of this grant are to: (1) develop interfaces to allow FARAD responders to access databases and computational tools, along with relevant global data; (2) pursue the development of novel AI technologies for...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $245,014 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 fund a study to monitor U.S. broiler chicken operations for antimicrobial use (AMU), antimicrobial resistance (AMR), animal health, and production practices, as well as analyze changes over time. The award was made on May 1, 2025, with a completion date of April 30,...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $280,635, funded 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 program (CFDA 10.025), is for the development of a new antimicrobial resistance dashboard that will integrate data from veterinary diagnostic laboratories. The award was made to the Texas Tech University System and is set to be completed by March 25, 2026. The goal of this project...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) to Kansas State University to develop the Long-term Antimicrobial Use with AI Web-crawler (LAMU-AI) platform. This 5-year project aims to (1) extract antimicrobial use data for major livestock and poultry species and (2) extend data collection to encompass minor species and companion animals. By integrating data from the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) and other sources, LAMU-AI will use advanced data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to provide real-time insights into antimicrobial utilization trends. The goal is to empower stakeholders, including veterinarians, producers, and regulatory agencies, with data to support antimicrobial stewardship and public health. The project also includes a $250,239 sub-award to the University of California, Davis to contribute their veterinary medicine expertise.