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...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States 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) provides $566,549.00 to expand an Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Dashboard tool called the AMR Data Visualizer. The primary awardee, Cornell University, will collaborate with the University of Guelph to enhance the analytic capabilities of the AMR Data Visualizer. This...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $400,000.00 and funded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103), aims to bridge critical data gaps in veterinary medicine through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced large language models. The project, titled "Bridging Critical Data Gaps in Veterinary Medicine via Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Large Language Models to Procure Real-Time Antibiotic Use Data in Livestock, Poultry...
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,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States 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) provides $1,438,469.00 to Iowa State University of Science and Technology to build upon previous cooperative agreements and develop the final infrastructure necessary to collect, standardize, securely store, and analyze large amounts of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) provides $1,150,000 in funding to Cornell University to conduct research on mitigating the risks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus in milk and dairy products. The key objectives of this 12-month project are to: 1) define the efficacy of raw milk cheese aging on inactivating HPAI; 2)...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $418,010.00 from the United States 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 intended to utilize and expand the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) analytics, predictive modeling, and forecasting tools developed during a previous AMR prototype project. The primary purpose is to enhance understanding of the dynamics and...
This $100,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) supports a project to assess the correlation between antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes and susceptibility phenotypes for Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) isolates. The project will isolate approximately 20 ECC isolates from clinical samples submitted to the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (KSVDL), obtain genome sequences, and determine AMR...
This Cooperative Agreement award from 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 for the development of a new Antimicrobial Resistance Dashboard integrating data from veterinary diagnostic laboratories. The total funding amount is $249,597.00, with a performance period from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026. The award was granted to the...
This four-year, $800,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA #10.310) will fund research at Cornell University examining the impacts of early versus delayed separation of newborn calves from dairy cows. The project has four objectives: assessing the effects of separation timing on cow and calf behavior/affective state, calf health/growth/immune...