The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Kansas State University a $792,185 cooperative agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025) for the period of February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2026. The award will support Kansas State University's delivery of a formal online course and hands-on training program to introduce students to the basics of high containment facilities, regulations,...
The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Kansas State University $130,324 under the Cooperative Agreement titled "2022 HIGH CONTAINMENT LABORATORY PRACTICES AND TECHNIQUES SEMINAR" from the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). The funding will support Kansas State University's delivery of a seminar from September 15, 2021 to September 14, 2022 focused on high containment laboratory practices...
The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded $410,000 under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025) to Kansas State University via a cooperative agreement from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2025. The funding will support a graduate student fellow in the Fiscal Year 2021 National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Scientist Training Program. The goal of the program, as stated in the CFDA, is to...
This $20,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) will support the continued design and construction of a Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) capable facility on the University of Delaware's Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) campus. The envisioned Securing American Biomanufacturing Research and Education (SABRE) Center will provide critical infrastructure to enable...
The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Kansas State University $117,659 under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025) via a Cooperative Agreement ending September 29, 2022. The funding will support methods development activities in the areas of survey, detection and control of Khapra beetle, an economically injurious pest of stored grains and processed foods. As part of the Cooperative Agreement,...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded Pittsburg State University a $6 million Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to establish a Center for Commercialization. The Center will leverage the university's research capabilities in materials advancement to develop polymer- and plastic-based products for commercialization. Over the three-year period from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025, the Center will...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded Kansas State University a $100,000 cooperative agreement under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2024. Under this award, Kansas State University will develop functional plant-based proteins to support the program's goals of making agricultural research discoveries and evaluating alternative approaches. As the prime awardee, Kansas State University will...
This $21,780,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Congressionally-Identified Projects (CFDA 11.617) program will support the construction and operation of the Kansas National Security Innovation Center (KNSIC) at the University of Kansas (KU) Innovation Park in Lawrence, Kansas. The KNSIC facility will be a 120,000 square-foot building comprising 60% high-security research space and 40% wet and "light" laboratory space. The...
Kansas State University will receive $1,125,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration through its Food and Drug Administration Research grant program (CFDA 93.103) to develop and validate serological assays for SARS-CoV-2 in highly susceptible animal species. Over a two-year period ending August 2023, the University will compare diagnostic results from commercial and in-house enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, serum neutralization assays, and...
This $324,979 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.329 Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program) aims to improve phosphine resistance management in insect pest populations in food facilities across multiple states. The key products and services to be delivered include: Optimizing an early warning phosphine resistance screening tool based on recessive allele frequency Conducting a survey of...
This $9,000,000 Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493), will support the development of a Pharma Pilot Plant (PPP) facility at Kansas State University (K-State). The PPP will enable K-State researchers, corporate partners, and early-stage drug discovery companies to scale up the production of vaccines, therapeutics, and other biologic products from bench-scale to commercial-scale manufacturing. This facility will help commercialize the intellectual property and biodefense/biosecurity research being conducted at K-State's Biosecurity Research Institute, a Biosafety Level 3 facility. The award will fund the renovation of an existing structure to create the new PPP, which will meet NIH requirements for BSL-2 containment and USDA clean room production standards. The PPP is expected to help attract companies and jobs to Kansas as part of K-State's broader efforts in biodefense, biosecurity, and biomanufacturing.