This $2,340,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a collaborative research project between the United States, United Kingdom, and China to understand the impact of poultry vaccination on the evolution and ecosystem dynamics of H5Nx avian influenza viruses. The key objectives are to: (1) measure the antigenic diversity of recent H5 influenza viruses, (2) identify H5 viruses evolved from vaccine protection, and (3)...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,999,998 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the development of the International Center for Avian Influenza Pandemic Prediction and Prevention. The University will provide research services focused on avian influenza virus modeling, data integration, and decision support systems development. Numerus Inc., the University of Kansas Center...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award in the amount of $200,000 supports research to investigate how different stakeholders, from government officials to the general public, use and perceive information about the evolving H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks in U.S. dairy cattle. The project aims to enhance national health interests by providing insights to guide better communication and decision-making for safeguarding...
This $667,763 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to San Diego State University (SDSU) Research Foundation on August 15, 2023. The grant will fund a highly integrated, interdisciplinary research collaboration between analytical chemists, virologists, and veterinary pathologists to study the spatial metabolic changes associated with avian influenza virus infection in...
The National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded the University of Georgia Research Foundation a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The grant funds the PIPP PHASE I: HETEROGENEOUS MODEL INTEGRATION FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE INTELLIGENCE project from August 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The project aims to develop a systems-of-systems framework to integrate knowledge from different disciplinary approaches for infectious...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $999,374.00 to the University of California, Davis to comprehensively evaluate the relationships between on-farm and off-farm risk factors for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in commercial poultry facilities. The researchers will combine an agent-based model for predicting HPAI...
This $483,851 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research at the University of Scranton to study factors influencing the prevalence of parasitic infections in birds. The project will collect and analyze parasite specimens from birds and insect vectors in northeastern Pennsylvania to test hypotheses about host traits and ecological interactions that drive parasitism. The research aims to advance understanding of disease...
This National Science Foundation award provides $159,259 to the University of Massachusetts Amherst through March 2024 to study the impacts of climate change and environmental pressures on long-distance migratory birds. Specifically, the award will support research tracking Hudsonian godwits throughout their annual migration cycle from Alaska to southern Chile using miniaturized tracking devices. The research aims to understand how changes occurring during different life cycle periods or...
This $291,941 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) supports research to establish the kinetics of environmentally mediated avian influenza virus decay. The grant was awarded to Duke University, a leading private research institution, to conduct this work over a 2-year period from April 2025 to April 2027. The research aims to advance scientific understanding...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $649,815 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct research on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 viruses that have devastated the poultry industry. The objectives are to comparatively study three H5N1 viruses to understand their infection, transmission, and disease...