Project Grant 20256801544818
- This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, with CFDA # 10.310, provides $994,586 to study the effectiveness of new rules and technologies in reducing the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria on dairy farms. The 5-year project, awarded on July 15, 2025, will assess the impact of regulations limiting antibiotic use, evaluate manure treatment methods for...
- This $299,322 Project Grant award to Auburn University was issued by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The objective is to determine the impact of antimicrobial use (AMU) in poultry production on microbial diversity, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, and horizontal gene transfer in the environment. The research will compare AMR levels and animal health outcomes between antimicrobial-free...
- This $1,000,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA #10.310) will fund development of an adaptable framework called CAMRADES to connect antimicrobial resistance, agricultural decisions, and environmental systems. Iowa State University will integrate predictive models of antimicrobial transport and associated human health risk into the...
- The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska received a four-year, $999,981 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 grant will fund research investigating the effects of antibiotic use on the ecology of the microbial community, antimicrobial resistance gene prevalence, enrichment, and transmission in the swine production system....
- This $419,863 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, supports research to develop new methods for identifying hotspots of fecal contamination in terrestrial environments using coprophagous flies. The key objectives are to: (i) determine how fecal indicators are ingested and persist in coprophagous flies under varying environmental conditions; (ii) quantify fecal indicators in wild-caught coprophagous flies from communities...
- This $299,999 project grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), will develop a laboratory system to test three different disinfection methods. The goal is to identify the most effective approach for eliminating harmful, antibiotic-resistant bacteria from agricultural irrigation water sourced from treated wastewater. The project will also create...
- This USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Project Grant, awarded to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (University of Nebraska), aims to improve the understanding of the environmental component of the One-Health approach in addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The $900,000 grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, has four primary objectives: 1) Track the transmission of clinically relevant AMR bacteria and genes of...
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $178,917 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will fund research from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026 to determine the capacity of muscid flies to acquire and transmit disease-causing bacteria to dairy cows. Specifically, the university will examine samples of flies and manure collected...
- This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), is funding research to better understand the underlying biology of drug resistance in parasitic worms that infect poultry. The $225,000 grant awarded to The Johns Hopkins University, to be completed by August 31, 2026, will be used to create a high-quality genome and protein models for...
- This $800,000 federal Project Grant award to George Washington University (The) was made by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant supports research to understand the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) mediated by membrane vesicles in water matrices relevant to agricultural water reuse. The research aims to elucidate the persistence and removal of vesicle-associated ARGs in...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2025 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The grant supports research to investigate the use of coprophagous (dung-feeding) flies as biomonitors for tracking the spread and prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in terrestrial environments. The three key research objectives are: (1) determining the ingestion and persistence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in coprophagous flies under various environmental conditions, (2) examining the excretion of ARB and ARGs by coprophagous flies onto surfaces, and (3) correlating ARB and ARGs in wild-caught coprophagous flies with agricultural products and irrigation water. This research will be conducted by the Trustees of Indiana University, a prominent public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, over a 2-year period ending on July 31, 2027. The insights gained are intended to enable targeted interventions to reduce the impact of AMR in the food chain and help break the transmission cycle of resistant bacteria, thereby improving public health.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 7/24/25 |