Project Grant AID442G1400005

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Iowa State University a $404,919 cooperative agreement from the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). The overall objective is to adopt Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology as a point-of-care diagnostic for avian influenza in field or resource-limited settings. Iowa State University will evaluate sample extraction and sequencing workflows for field use, develop...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $649,815 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota. The grant supports a comparative study of three strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus to understand their infection, transmission, and disease mechanisms in chickens and turkeys. The research also aims to develop a novel microRNA-based live vaccine to help control...

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. 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 competitive grants program. The three-year grant runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The grant funds research to develop new sequencing-based diagnostic assays for Avian Reovirus, Avian Coronavirus, and Avian Astroviruses. These RNA viruses cause significant...

The Indiana State Poultry Association Inc. has been awarded a $205,344 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this agreement is for the association to conduct national surveillance and response activities for avian health in Indiana. Key activities include active and passive surveillance sampling for...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $101,480 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) to the Kentucky Poultry Federation, Inc. The purpose of this 1-year agreement is to quickly diagnose, control, and prevent the spread of all H5 and H7 avian influenza (AI) subtypes in Kentucky. Key activities include: 1) conducting biosecurity audits of commercial poultry flocks,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from 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 program (CFDA 10.025) provides $197,482 to Iowa State University to develop standardized protocols for next-generation sequencing (NGS) of animal pathogens. The project aims to address the lack of consistency in NGS data analysis and reporting across veterinary diagnostic laboratories. The award will fund...

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)...

This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA Program 10.310 - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) aims to investigate how certain avian influenza (bird flu) strains, particularly H5, H7, and H9, can adapt to infect cattle. The $649,992.00 grant, awarded on March 15, 2025, will be used by the University of Pittsburgh to study the mechanisms by which these viruses bind to and infect various cattle tissues,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS), under the Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028), provides $194,132.00 to Colorado State University (CSU) to conduct research on the pathogenesis and transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAIV) among peridomestic animals. The award has a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The key products and services to be delivered...

This federal Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) provides $649,997.00 in funding for research to understand why and how the H5N1 avian influenza virus behaves so differently in dairy cattle compared to other animals. The research aims to closely study how the virus infects and spreads in cattle using advanced laboratory techniques that do not involve live...