Project Grant HDTRA12210023
- The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded a $465,000 Project Grant under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.351) program to the Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The grant, awarded on Sep 29, 2023, supports an epidemiologic and molecular characterization study of Francisella tularensis, a potential biological threat agent, in the countries of the Black Sea region (Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine). The project will be carried out...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Georgia TECH Research Corp received a $336,101 Project Grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program (CFDA 12.351), awarded March 9, 2026, with completion scheduled for March 8, 2031. The research initiative delivers multidisciplinary scientific capabilities focused on developing new or improved medical countermeasures against chemical and biological threats in both pre- and...
- The Defense Threat Reduction Agency awarded a $2.49 million project grant to the Lepl State Laboratory Of Agriculture in Armenia to support complex epidemiological survey and control of foot and mouth disease in Armenia and Georgia from September 2022 through September 2025. The grant is being used under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program (CFDA 12.351) to advance fundamental knowledge and understanding of sciences supporting the advancement of combating...
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) received a $2,368,986 project grant award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) on February 16, 2023 to complete work by February 15, 2026. The grant falls under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.351) program to support fundamental knowledge and understanding of sciences related to combating WMDs. UTMB will conduct research on the ecological dynamics and improved surveillance of plague...
- The Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement to the Georgian Center for Strategy and Development from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The funding supports projects under the Global Threat Reduction program, which aims to counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction through capacity building and technical assistance initiatives. Specifically, the cooperative agreement will enhance the capabilities...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Battelle Memorial Institute received a $508,306.42 Project Grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program (CFDA 12.351), awarded February 9, 2026, with completion targeted for February 8, 2031. The award supports development and validation of a novel polymeric/protein nanoparticle (PNP) platform designed to deliver episomal DNA constructs containing tetracycline-inducible promoter...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco $336,111 under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program (CFDA 12.351) to conduct fundamental research defining the molecular recognition principles governing how two classes of toxin-binding proteins—frog saxiphilins and pufferfish saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin binding proteins—interact with guanidinium toxins, including...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded $524,588 to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as University of Colorado-Denver, under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program (CFDA 12.351). The award, effective from September 17, 2025, through September 16, 2027, supports research to create spatiotemporal inflammation models associated with agent exposure. This project advances fundamental knowledge and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded $415,250 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) on August 21, 2025, for a research project extending through July 31, 2027. This project addresses the critical public health challenge of antibiotic resistance in gram-negative bacteria by characterizing a feedback signaling mechanism that regulates the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. received a $684,627 Project Grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), awarded September 17, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2030. The grant supports research investigating the interaction between outer membrane transport proteins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and host cell glycans to identify novel...
The National Center for Disease Control and Public Health in Georgia received a $1,237,600 Project Grant award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction federal grant program (CFDA 12.351). The award, issued on August 1, 2022 for completion by August 10, 2025, will support epidemiologic and molecular characterization of Francisella tularensis bacteria in Georgia, Turkey, and Ukraine. The grant funding will enable characterization of the bacteria strains present in these countries of the Black Sea region to advance the fundamental scientific understanding of this potential bioweapon. The work directly supports the grant program's objective of stimulating applied and advanced research to combat weapons of mass destruction at educational and research institutions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 9/6/22 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 8/30/22 | ||
| Not listed | $1.2m | 8/10/22 |