Project Grant 20223361037856

The University of Missouri System, under a $650,000 project grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, is developing safe and effective live attenuated swine influenza vaccines using Newcastle disease virus (NDV) as the vector. The project aims to address the challenges with current swine influenza vaccines, which often fail to provide cross-protection against diverse virus strains. The key products and...

Oklahoma State University will receive $650,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (AFRI CGP) to develop an oral live attenuated vaccine for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV). PEDV has caused significant losses to the U.S. pork industry since 2013, with current commercially available vaccines providing limited protection. The university will identify...

The North Carolina State University will receive $1 million from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to establish the Predict and Protect Against Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus system from July 2022 to June 2026. The project aims to develop two integrated technologies to proactively mitigate outbreaks of the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Kansas State University $650,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to develop improved vaccines for bovine respiratory disease complex. With funding through May 2026, the university aims to generate new knowledge needed to design vaccines capable of protecting calves against multiple strains of Bovine parainfluenza virus 3 and Bovine viral diarrhea virus. Researchers...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (AFRI, CFDA 10.310) aims to develop a universal mucosal vaccine for influenza that can protect against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus infections in cows and reduce transmission between animals and humans. The $648,881 award to the University of Maryland, College Park will support research to engineer an FcRn-based nasal spray vaccine that can induce long-lasting...

Biostone Animal Health LLC was awarded an $800,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The three-year award will support the development of diagnostic tools and monoclonal antibodies for African swine fever virus. Specifically, the company will further develop, optimize, and validate two enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) to differentiate infected...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to Kansas State University (KSU) on September 1, 2024. The grant supports two main objectives: (1) developing an effective, DIVA-compatible (Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals) classical swine fever (CSF) vaccine that can rapidly and strongly protect pigs against CSF disease, and (2)...

The University of Illinois was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program. The four-year grant will fund research to develop an improved vaccine candidate for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV), a significant pathogen affecting the U.S. pork industry. Key areas of focus include removing viral interferon...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) with a total of $649,896, aims to develop an mRNA vaccine cocktail against influenza A viruses (IAV) that pose significant economic and pandemic threats to livestock and human populations. The University of Illinois, as the primary awardee, will initially characterize the candidate mRNA-peptide nanoparticle (mRNA-PNP) vaccine in cell culture models and then assess its...

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...