Project Grant 20183361028500

Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY at Binghamton) a Cooperative Agreement valued at $2,489,320 under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The award, effective February 2, 2026, with completion targeted for February 1, 2029, funds the development of a feedable multivalent vaccine to protect poultry from highly pathogenic...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Colorado State University received a $2.0M cooperative agreement 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), awarded February 2, 2026, with completion targeted for February 1, 2029. The agreement funds development of a novel oral vaccine to protect poultry from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) using Lactobacillus...

Cooperative Agreement Summary The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded Centivax, Inc. a $1,999,929 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 10.025: Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care) effective February 2, 2026, through February 1, 2028. Under this agreement, Centivax will develop and advance CENTI-POULT-H5, a broadly protective vaccine designed to protect poultry from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 variants. The vaccine incorporates eight divergent...

Cooperative Agreement Summary Kansas State University received a $2.0 million Cooperative Agreement from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), awarded February 2, 2026, with completion targeted for February 1, 2029. The primary deliverable is a novel live-attenuated vaccine (BPI3VC-H5N1) designed to protect poultry from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1, which is engineered using bovine...

This Project Grant award of $649,943.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) supports the development and updating of vaccines against influenza A virus of swine. The University of Nebraska is the primary awardee and will leverage its multidisciplinary expertise in agricultural research, technology innovation, and vaccine development to deliver this versatile, non-infectious vaccine platform. The project aims to...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $530,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to develop a trivalent vaccine that protects against Marek's disease, Newcastle disease, and infectious laryngotracheitis in poultry. With a completion date of April 30, 2026, this Project Grant will fund research at the Agricultural Research Service's Southeast Area location in Stoneville, MS to design a single vaccine using...

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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) provides $238,731 to Oklahoma State University (OSU) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The project aims to assess the efficacy of various vaccine adjuvants, including those equivalent to MF59 and AS03, compared to aluminum salts (alum) in eliciting humoral and...

Summary of Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Iowa State University of Science and Technology received a $2.0 million Cooperative Agreement 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), awarded February 2, 2026, with a completion date of February 1, 2029. The award supports the development of AI-NANOVAX, a novel nanoparticle-based vaccine platform designed to...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Duke University, in partnership with North Carolina State University, will develop and evaluate a novel prime-boost vaccine regimen for layer poultry against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) under a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) through the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The $1,999,758 award, effective February 2,...

Federal Grant Award Summary Kansas State University received a $650,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310) to develop a novel African Swine Fever (ASF) vaccine and accompanying diagnostic tools. The three-year project (February 1, 2026 – January 31, 2029) aims to identify protective antigen genes by comparing non-protective and protective ASF virus strains, then develop a vaccine...