Project Grant HDTRA12210011

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey under its Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) will implement advanced molecular detection methods to monitor tick-borne pathogens and identify their host bloodmeal sources in the National Parks. Cornell University, the prime awardee, will use a hybrid capture sequencing approach to detect and characterize bacterial, protozoal, and viral pathogens in ticks, as well as analyze tick bloodmeals to gather information on...

This $260,109 cooperative agreement from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences will support surveillance for Rift Valley fever, rickettsia, malaria, dengue, chikungunya, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever disease pathogens. The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine will collect human samples and arthropod vectors from selected sites in Botswana to test for these pathogens. Under a subaward, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University...

This Project Grant award of $392,500.00 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) supports a research program at Arizona State University (ASU) focused on improving the understanding of cross-species viral transmission from wild mammals to humans. The key objectives of the five-year project are to: 1) develop automated tools to curate and maintain up-to-date taxonomic data on mammal and virus species, 2) test...

This $148,582 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) supports the development of computational models and algorithms to analyze and forecast epidemiological trends during and after military conflicts. The project, titled "EAGER: IMPRESS-U: Modeling and Forecasting of Infection Spread in War and Post War Settings Using Epidemiological, Behavioral and Genomic Surveillance Data", is a collaborative effort...

This five-year, $2.94 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Cornell University to understand the mechanisms by which land use change triggers zoonotic pathogen spillover from wildlife to humans. The grant funds an interdisciplinary team to apply convergent biological, computational, and social science approaches to identify the "rules of emergence" driving land use-induced spillover of bat-borne...

The Shivwits Band of Paiutes received a $713,554 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Zoonotic Disease Initiative (CFDA 15.069) program. The tribe will conduct zoonotic disease surveillance and prevention activities through its "Building Capacity for Wildlife Zoonosis Surveillance and Prevention" project. Services will include educating tribal members and the local community about zoonotic disease threats, training tribal...

The Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) received a $683,697 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Zoonotic Disease Initiative (CFDA No. 15.069) program. The award will fund a 3-year project focused on four key areas: 1) Developing a fish and wildlife health database to enhance disease surveillance, monitoring, and forecasting; 2) Creating a wildlife health communication plan to improve information dissemination...

This $814,512 National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences (47.074) program will fund collaborative research on integrated mechanisms of environment-host-virome interactions in Egyptian fruit bats. The University of California, Davis will lead the project to study how factors like food access, animal health, and immune responses influence viral infection levels in bat populations experiencing variable human exposure. Researchers will use integrative approaches to illuminate...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) has awarded a $179,544 project grant to the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc. in Millbrook, NY. The funding will support research to evaluate the effects of spongy moth defoliation on blacklegged ticks, the primary vectors of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses in the United States. The project aims to investigate how changes in ground-level temperature and humidity caused by spongy moth outbreaks may...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to investigate the role of human behavior in the dynamics of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and Zika. The $100,000 grant, awarded to North Carolina State University (NC State), will support a multidisciplinary research project to understand how individual decision-making around mosquito prevention behaviors impacts disease transmission. The...