This $649,999 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program was awarded to The Ohio State University to evaluate the risk of H5N1 influenza virus spillover from cattle to swine. The project will be conducted from April 2025 through April 2028 to advance scientific understanding of this critical agricultural health concern. As a leading research university, The Ohio State University has extensive expertise in...
This $649,943 federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program, supports the development and updating of vaccines against influenza A virus of swine using a versatile noninfectious platform. The award recipient, the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, will utilize its expertise in agricultural research, engineering, and technology...
This federal Project Grant award for $649,455.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program. The grant is supporting research at the University of Nebraska to develop vaccines for the prevention of swine influenza pandemics. The research project began on April 15, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by April 14, 2028. As a major land-grant research university, the...
This three-year, $800,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) supports research under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program (CFDA 10.310). The University of Wisconsin-Madison will develop DNA-based nanoparticle vaccines (nanovaccines) to improve protection against emerging and transboundary poultry infections such as highly pathogenic avian influenza. Researchers will...
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 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...
This three-year, $615,000 Project Grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) within the U.S. Department of Agriculture supports research under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. Kansas State University will test rational vaccine design approaches against African Swine Fever Virus, which causes a lethal disease in pigs. The university will engineer live virus and vectored vaccines using genomic techniques and deliver viral proteins via...
This federal Project Grant award of $650,000.00 was provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The award, with a performance period from April 15, 2025 to April 14, 2028, is for a research project titled "NOVEL VACCINE PLATFORMS FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INFLUENZA A H5N1 IN CATTLE" to be conducted by Cornell University's Office of Sponsored Programs. The project aims to develop...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) will support the development and testing of a novel vaccine against Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, a bacterium that infects sheep and causes respiratory disease. The project aims to design a vaccine that incorporates biofilm components to induce a strong immune response in the respiratory tract and prevent or clear M....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $225,000 project grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop and evaluate an mRNA vaccine against African Swine Fever (ASF). The goal of this 2-year project is to engineer vaccine antigens using lipid nanoparticle (LNP) mRNA formulations to stimulate strong antibody and T-cell immune responses, which could lead...