Project Grant 16012

This $968,765 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) will develop a flexible modeling framework to simulate the impact of various testing-based infection control strategies for respiratory pathogens like SARS-CoV-2. The project aims to improve our ability to control existing respiratory diseases and enhance preparedness for future pandemics. Key deliverables include: Developing a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $878,296 Cooperative Agreement to Surfplasma Inc., a minority-owned small business based in Gainesville, FL, to develop a rapid, low-temperature plasma prototype for disinfecting personal protective equipment (PPE), medical devices, food products and other materials from pathogens like COVID-19. The project, funded under NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to deliver a market-ready sterilization solution...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $195,381 Project Grant to Washington State University under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant aims to fund the RAPID project "Curtailing Nosocomial Amplification of COVID-19," which seeks to develop epidemiological models to better understand and mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 in healthcare settings. As part of the grant, Research Triangle Institute will...

The University of California, San Diego received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) to evaluate COVID-19 mitigation strategies in schools using a spatially-explicit agent-based model of infection dynamics. The award, issued on October 1, 2021, will support research through September 30, 2023 to develop a computational model to simulate the spread of COVID-19...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Construction Support program (CFDA 93.352), provides $15,715,230 to the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMass Chan) to renovate existing space and construct a new Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory for viral pathogen research. The new BSL-3 facility will address the increased demand for this specialized research infrastructure at UMass Chan, which has become a leading institute for studying...

This $255,966 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships award to Nano-Product Engineering, LLC will support the development of an antiviral/antimicrobial micropowder for application to personal protective equipment and respiratory equipment surfaces. The award period is from September 15, 2022 through May 31, 2023. The project aims to improve the protective properties of commonly used PPE and respiratory equipment, which typically only provides passive protection and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.855 - Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research) provides $128,655 to Dr. Alexander Sundermann at the University of Pittsburgh to develop enhanced genomic surveillance and epidemiological modeling methods to identify and control healthcare-associated infection (HAI) outbreaks. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Advancing Dr. Sundermann's expertise in...

This $788,406 project grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), will fund the development of a sensitive, direct reading bioaerosol detection platform to quantify airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2. Aerosol Devices Inc. will integrate their gentle condensation-growth capture sampler, which concentrates intact, viable virus particles into a small liquid volume...

This $223,001 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop novel predictive models of epidemic spread dynamics and validate those models against COVID-19 data. The award is made under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support fundamental engineering research. Specifically, researchers at the University of Cincinnati will work collaboratively to: develop new predictive dynamic models based on partial differential equations; study the interaction of...

This $416,625 project grant awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) aims to enhance wastewater surveillance capabilities for rapidly detecting monkeypox (mpox) variants. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) will develop a wastewater-based intelligence model and data analytics platform to provide real-time community infection monitoring and viral evolution tracking for mpox....