This federal Project Grant award of $819,998.00 was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco. The purpose of the award is to conduct research to understand how Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) infection triggers host cell death mechanisms, with the goal of identifying new therapeutic targets to augment protective...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), through its Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.855), awarded a $238,500 project grant to the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) to develop a novel electrochemical lateral flow assay (ELFA) for the point-of-need diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). The objective is to create a highly sensitive and specific blood or urine test that can accurately distinguish active TB disease from...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $256,504 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The grant will fund the planning of an open-label, randomized, controlled Phase 2C clinical trial to evaluate novel 4-month treatment regimens for isoniazid-monoresistant tuberculosis (IMR-TB) compared to the current 6-month standard of care. The trial...
The federal Project Grant award of $3,089,360 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) supports the development and evaluation of innovative tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic platforms and assays. The 5-year project, awarded to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, aims to accelerate promising TB diagnostics through a fast-paced pipeline that includes technology scouting, development...
This $492,000 Project Grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.855 - Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research) aims to conduct biochemical and structural characterization of the elongasome and divisome protein complexes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and the model organism Mycobacterium smegmatis. The research will use bacterial genetics and endogenous protein purifications to understand how these critical protein systems coordinate and interact to...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $536,148 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to Tufts University School of Medicine to conduct research on integrating point-of-care urine isoniazid testing into routine tuberculosis (TB) care in India. The research aims to facilitate early and accurate identification of TB patients who are at risk of poor outcomes, including death and disease recurrence, due to...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to The University of Southern Mississippi to research the role of extracellular polyphosphate in Mycobacterium tuberculosis antibiotic tolerance. The 4-year grant, which begins on Sep 20, 2025 and runs through Aug 31, 2029, aims to investigate the metabolic pathways in M. tuberculosis that regulate extracellular...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $429,546 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to National Jewish Health in Colorado. The grant will fund research to evaluate the efficacy of tuberculosis (TB) treatment regimens by analyzing the transcriptomic patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis injury and adaptation during drug treatment. The research aims to develop more reliable preclinical measures of TB treatment...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $404,108, was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855). The grant supports research to identify the key genetic and signaling pathways that enable Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) to form antibiotic persister cells, which can survive prolonged exposure to lethal antibiotics. The research aims to apply genetic and proteomic approaches to...
This $193,375 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), supports research to identify bacterial determinants that may contribute to variable treatment responses for tuberculosis (TB). The project, conducted by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, aims to investigate the effects of clinically prevalent variants in the ESX1 secretion system on TB...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $4,760,584 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research (CFDA 93.855) federal grant program to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for the "RAPID RESEARCH FOR DIAGNOSTICS DEVELOPMENT IN TB NETWORK: EPISODE 2 (R2D2 TB NETWORK II)" project. The goal of this project is to address the critical unmet need for better tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics in high-burden countries by identifying promising novel TB diagnostic technologies, linking them with experienced clinical study sites, and conducting analytical and clinical studies to assess the accuracy, usability, acceptability, and feasibility of earlier-phase TB tests to enable iterative optimization. The project will run from September 2025 to August 2030.