Project Grant R01AI150529

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), provides $606,815 to Duquesne University to develop paratransgenic bacterial strains that can interfere with the ability of mosquitoes to transmit malaria parasites. The key objectives are to engineer optimized strains of Asaia bogorensis bacteria that lack antibiotic resistance genes, are resistant to horizontal...

The University of Maryland, College Park will receive $499,961 from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research program to conduct genomic monitoring of insect pest populations for emerging resistance to pest management technologies from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The project aims to assess the strengths and limitations of genomic monitoring approaches for detecting emerging resistance in different pest...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $2.18 million Project Grant effective November 1, 2025 through October 31, 2029 under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to investigate chemosensory mechanisms driving malaria transmission by the African malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. The research will identify specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in human body odor that...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $366,845 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, effective August 18, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2027. This award funds the development and validation of a portable experimental hut tent (PEHT) system designed to evaluate insecticide-treated net (ITN) efficacy for malaria vector...

This Project Grant award of $416,165 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.855 - Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research) supports research to investigate blood fitness genes in the tsetse fly symbiont Sodalis glossinidius. The central hypothesis is that S. glossinidius requires specific genes to access nutrients and survive within the blood-rich tsetse fly gut environment. The research goals are to screen S. glossinidius transposon libraries for candidate...

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;...

Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), awarded $807,330 to Massachusetts General Hospital on August 12, 2025, for a five-year project (concluding July 31, 2030) focused on advancing potent antibody therapeutics against malaria parasites. The research aims to identify and characterize highly potent human antibodies against the circumsporozoite proteins of Plasmodium falciparum...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded $147,290 to Universite DES Sciences, DES Techniques Et DES Technologies De Bamako (USTTB) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to conduct a comprehensive epidemiological study on dengue fever disease (DFD) persistence and risk factors in urban Bamako, Mali. The award was obligated on September 18, 2025, with a project completion date of August 31,...

This Project Grant award of $651,084, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research to determine how microbes influence the response of their mosquito host to climate change, with a focus on the impacts on Hawaiian honeycreepers, an endangered bird species. The research aims to: Clarify the landscape-scale population dynamics of the mosquito vector Culex quinquefasciatus and its microbiome across an elevational gradient in Hawaii....

This Project Grant award of $238,502 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) supports research conducted by the University of California, Davis from January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028. The award funds a systematic, multidisciplinary investigation into taste perception and its role in host-seeking and biting behaviors of Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito),...