Project Grant 20203353032918

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...

The University of Pittsburgh has been awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to develop cost-effective molecular methods for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in agricultural animals, particularly farmed deer and cattle. The project aims to create two new detection methods: 1) a reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) test with solid-state nanopore sensing, and 2) an amplicon-based sequencing approach called...

This $650,000 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) will support research to quantify the effects of wildfire smoke and agricultural burning on farmworker labor and health outcomes. The project will be carried out by the University of California, Davis over a 3-year period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The research aims to assess the immediate threats that smoke exposure poses to farmworker...

This Project Grant award of $799,997.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, CFDA 10.310, aims to develop improved laboratory tests for detecting infectious viruses on produce like raspberries and lettuce. The key objectives are: 1) Improving a currently used commercial test by adding a biological step to distinguish infectious from non-infectious virus; 2) Testing whether a commercial machine can destroy viruses on produce...

This Project Grant award, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310), aims to address the challenge of assuring the quality of agricultural return flows and reclaimed water for irrigation. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is the prime awardee, receiving $648,952 to (i) develop carbon-60 probes to identify waterborne pathogens, (ii) create and validate...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service awarded a $526,500 Cooperative Agreement on May 20, 2024 to Aerodyne Research Inc., a small business manufacturer and research and development company based in Billerica, Massachusetts. The award is funded through the USDA Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) and supports a project titled "Evaluating Variability in Emissions at Swine and Dairy Operations." The project aims to...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded 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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025), aims to develop a work-based learning experience program (WBLP) for community college students focused on on-farm enhanced biosecurity plan development and implementation. The $498,985.00 award to the University of California, Davis will support the creation of...

This $200,782 USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Project Grant, awarded to Syracuse University from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, employs social science research to foster interagency collaboration and advance food system security in the meatpacking industry. The project aims to enhance resilience and worker/food safety within the meatpacking sector, which was significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using social network analysis and in-depth interviews, the...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) provides $732,000 to North Carolina State University to develop enzyme- and DNA-based biosensors to determine the optimal dosage of cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAPP) for food processing. The goal is to use these biosensors to train machine learning models that can predict CAPP doses and correlate them to food quality and safety metrics. The project has two key...

This $10 million project grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA #10.310), will fund research, education, and extension activities to build resilience in local and regional food systems in the Midwest region against multiple concurrent shocks such as pandemics, climate events, and foodborne pathogens. Michigan State University is the primary awardee and will collaborate...