The federal Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00 and awarded on Feb 26, 2025 by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.351) program, supports research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to discover highly stable materials for adsorption and catalytic decontamination. The award will fund fundamental, applied, and advanced research at MIT aimed at advancing scientific knowledge and capabilities...
This federal Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.351) program is supporting research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to identify conserved host responses during infection of emerging viruses. The award, with a performance period from February 2025 to February 2030, will utilize complementary proteomic approaches to advance...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded a 5-year, $481,680 Project Grant under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.351) federal grant program to the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust (PRSTRT), a minority-owned, Hispanic American non-profit organization. The objective of the grant is to develop methods to quickly identify natural products in extracts and human protein targets through the use of high-resolution mass spectrometry,...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.351) program to the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) on December 18, 2024. The grant will support the development of an in vitro model for studying alphavirus infection, which is a key focus area for research on defending against chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive threats. This...
The federal Project Grant award of $631,742.00 was made by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.351) program. The objective is to develop color-changing coatings and bioengineered enzymes for the sensitive and specific colorimetric detection of vesicant chemical warfare agents on surfaces. This research aims to reduce personnel health risks and streamline decontamination protocols. The award was made to KRI At...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded a $2,609,649 Project Grant under the Training and Support - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.501) federal grant program to the World Health Organization (WHO). The primary goal of this 16-month project, with a completion date of February 3, 2025, is to enhance national capacities and capabilities across all countries to prevent, detect, and manage biological challenges and risks. The project aims to develop appropriate management...
This Project Grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency provides $668,000 in funding under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction federal grant program (CFDA 12.351) to support fundamental research to counter weapons of mass destruction. Specifically, the University of California, Berkeley will utilize molecular dynamics simulations to understand how random heteropolymers arrange within and around metal organic frameworks and provide functions such as stabilizing...
This $149,950 Project Grant award from the U.S. Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Michigan State University supports research on "LIGHTWAVE-DRIVEN TERAHERTZ MICROSCOPY OF EMERGENT PHENOMENA IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS". The research, spanning from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will leverage advanced terahertz microscopy techniques driven by lightwave technology to investigate emerging phenomena in two-dimensional materials. This fundamental...
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...
This $7,998,916 federal Project Grant award, funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Training and Support - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.501) program, supports the Office International DES Epizooties (OIE), also known as the World Organisation for Animal Health, in building global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to biological threats. The grant, awarded on July 22, 2024 with a completion date of August 4, 2028, enables OIE to provide technical...