This $1,471,500 Project Grant was awarded on September 1, 2025, by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director through the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to Boston University. The award supports a three-year research initiative (through August 31, 2028) to investigate how human odor is represented and processed in the central nervous system of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The research will develop new neuroscience techniques, including trans-synaptic labeling...
Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded Johns Hopkins University a Project Grant of $426,938 on August 1, 2025, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). This two-year project (completion date July 31, 2027) supports fundamental research investigating the structural basis for chemosensation by insect olfactory ionotropic receptors (IRs). The research aims to elucidate how...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $238,502 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis, with an award date of January 1, 2026, and completion deadline of December 31, 2028. Under the "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" program (CFDA 93.173), the award funds research investigating taste perception and its role in host-seeking and biting behaviors of Aedes albopictus...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate olfactory learning and neuromodulation in the Aedes aegypti mosquito from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The research aims to understand how odor learning modifies mosquitoes' biting behaviors through three objectives: testing whether mosquitoes only learn certain odors corresponding to antennal lobe glomeruli tuning;...
Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $2,178,448 Project Grant effective November 1, 2025 through October 31, 2029, under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855). This award funds research on chemosensory mechanisms driving malaria transmission, specifically investigating how the African malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae uses olfactory cues from human body odor to locate and...
Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $152,600 Project Grant, effective October 15, 2026 through August 31, 2029, under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855). This research grant supports an investigation into the neural basis of spatial repellency in the malaria mosquito (Anopheles gambiae), with the ultimate goal of identifying active ingredients in lemongrass oils that...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded $656,479 to the Monell Chemical Senses Center on May 1, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). This five-year project grant, with ultimate completion scheduled for April 30, 2031, funds preclinical research investigating the mechanisms of influenza virus-induced long-term anosmia (smell loss) and associated...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory received a $432,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030. The award funds research into the mechanisms of odorant receptor map formation in mice, with the primary deliverable being a comprehensive mapping and characterization of all...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary Yale University received a $131,995 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), effective August 13, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2029. The award funds research investigating the olfactory responses of tsetse flies to trypanosome-induced volatile compounds, addressing a critical public health challenge affecting 70 million people...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $619,942 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Health Sciences Division, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2030. Under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), this award supports fundamental research investigating solid phase transitions as a mechanism facilitating olfactory...
This Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $405,048.70 in funding to Rockefeller University. The grant supports research to elucidate the structural determinants of odor specificity in insect olfactory receptors in order to gain fundamental insights into sensory processing of olfactory information in insects. Specifically, the awardee will determine the atomic structures of primitive insect olfactory receptors unbound and bound to multiple odor ligands to shed light on the molecular mechanisms underlying broad or specific odor selectivity. Additionally, the research will focus on elucidating the atomic structures of olfactory receptors from disease-carrying mosquitoes bound to human volatiles, illuminating the molecular properties that enable mosquitoes to detect and prey on humans. This work has the potential to inform the development of novel insect repellents to curb insect-borne diseases such as malaria, Zika virus, and dengue fever. The award period is from April 5, 2021 to April 15, 2022.