Project Grant 20193361029777

Ridge Quest Inc. was awarded a $600,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an improved mating disruption product for oriental fruit moth. The SBIR program aims to support technological innovation through federal research funding. Under the award, Ridge Quest will develop a new mating disruption product called Tangler OFM that utilizes a bolas-style capsule to rapidly and...

Ridge Quest Inc., a for-profit, woman-owned Subchapter S Corporation, received a $650,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The award supports the development of the Tangler Trifecta system, a mating disruption technology utilizing biodegradable pheromone dispensers to control key fruit crop pests such as codling moth, oblique banded leafroller, and...

This $201,210 Cooperative Agreement awarded by 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) is funding research on the use of mating disruption pheromones to control California red scale infestations in citrus crops in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The primary goal is to evaluate the efficacy of CheckMate pheromone dispensers for mating disruption as a viable...

Novoclade, Inc. received a $181,500 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The funding supports the development of an innovative insect control method using genetically engineered sterile male Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) flies. Novoclade's approach aims to simplify the implementation of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) for SWD, a major agricultural pest causing an...

This $189,313.00 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) aims to improve control of the Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) through the development of genetically modified sterile flies. The key objectives are to double sterile fly production while reducing costs and safety hazards associated with traditional irradiation methods. The...

This federal Project Grant award, provided through the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program (CFDA 10.219) administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA), focuses on researching the dispersal characteristics of genetically engineered (GE) sterile male Spotted-Wing Drosophila (SWD) flies. The $649,809 award to Oregon State University aims to investigate the scale and dynamics of PGSIT-SWD dispersal, comparing the...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) provides $525,000 to Live Advantage Bait, LLC to develop an innovative manufacturing process for slow-release fish spawning implants. The proposed work aims to improve the production efficiency and lower the costs of these spawning aids, which are ranked as a high priority by the aquaculture industry. The key goals of the project are to: 1)...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $196,570 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The purpose of this award is to enhance current mitigation strategies for invasive fruit flies through the development of a control device that will kill mating females. The project will field test an auto-dissemination device that...

The Center for Aquaculture Technologies, Inc. was awarded a $499,996 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to support research on Partial Inactivation of Maternal Gene technology for the genetic containment of genetically engineered fish. The award, made under the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research program (CFDA #10.219), will fund the generation of new information to assist USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $291,440 to Contraline, Inc. to support the development of ADAM AIR, a non-hormonal, vas-occlusive contraceptive device. The key products to be delivered through this funding are advancements to Contraline's existing ADAM contraceptive hydrogel technology. Specifically, the project aims to develop a...