Project Grant 1820015

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.212 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program) provides $175,000 to Seia Bio Inc. to develop a proprietary coating technology that protects beneficial probiotic microbes, such as Faecalibacterium, from environmental stressors. This will enable the expanded use of these microbes as alternatives to antibiotics...

This two-year, $999,824 project grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture will support Intralytix Inc.'s efforts to optimize the application of its Salmonella-targeting phage product SalmoFresh in poultry processing facilities. The goals of the award made under the American Rescue Plan Centers of Excellence for Meat and Poultry Processing and Food Safety Research and Innovation Phase III program are to design a customized spray system for applying SalmoFresh, test its...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $273,652 to Phage Refinery LLC aims to develop a rapid and efficient parametric model for predicting the likelihood that a given bacteriophage (phage) will survive sufficiently long in the presence of an active immune system to be effective as a treatment against their target bacterial infection. The project will gather physical parameters and in-vivo persistence data for 400...

Sasya Inc. was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The award will support the development of a probiotic cell factory to produce and deliver performance supplements directly in the intestinal tract of livestock. Growing restrictions on antibiotics and growth promoters in the livestock industry have created a need for alternative supplements to enhance...

This SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $273,111 to Hoofprint Biome, Inc. to develop a probiotic yeast technology that can reduce methane emissions from cattle by at least 30%, and potentially up to 98%. The technology involves screening and optimizing enzymes that restrict methane production in the cattle rumen, and then packaging these enzymes for delivery via a probiotic yeast. The...

Membrane Protective Technologies, Inc. received a $181,500 Phase I Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212), awarded on August 15, 2025, with completion targeted for April 14, 2026. The company is developing plant-based replacement formulations for animal-derived semen extenders currently used in bull sperm cryopreservation. The project directly addresses the...

This Cooperative Agreement award 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) provides $280,972 to North Carolina State University to develop antimicrobials that kill bacteria pathogenic to the Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens) without harming beneficial bacteria. Key activities include creating phage cocktails, converting phages to plasmid systems, and...

This federal Project Grant award of $237,204.00 from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), will fund research into using gut microbiome modulation as an alternative approach to control Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) in swine. The key objectives of this 18-month project, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, are to investigate the effects of microbiome...

Federal Grant Award Summary Phycovax LLC received a $175,000 Project Grant from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for April 30, 2027. The company is developing a novel feed-based vaccine utilizing engineered diatoms (microscopic algae) to produce Salmonella proteins effective against multiple serotypes. This innovation addresses a critical food...

This $173,300 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) supports Phagepro, P.b.c. (doing business as Phagepro Inc.), a minority-owned, woman-owned small business, in planning for a Phase I/II clinical trial of their Prophylactic-VC (PVC) bacteriophage cocktail intervention to prevent the spread of cholera. The funding will be used to develop necessary clinical trial...