Project Grant R43AI098179

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant of $246,620 awarded to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will fund the development of novel mathematical models for Wolbachia-based strategies to control mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever, malaria, chikungunya, and Zika. The multi-stage models will account for the complex transmission dynamics, spatial and temporal heterogeneity, and Wolbachia's biological...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project on the transmission, control, and risk assessment of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in South Florida. The $323,038 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, will integrate mosquito data from Miami-Dade County and CHIKV outbreak data from Brazil into a hybrid machine learning and mathematical modeling...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded UC San Diego a $439,375 Project Grant (CFDA 93.855 – Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research) on February 19, 2026, with a project completion date of January 31, 2028. The grant funds development of novel female-killing technologies for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the primary vector for dengue, chikungunya, and Zika transmission. The project will produce research tools and methodologies...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to investigate the role of human behavior in the dynamics of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and Zika. The $100,000 grant, awarded to North Carolina State University (NC State), will support a multidisciplinary research project to understand how individual decision-making around mosquito prevention behaviors impacts disease transmission. The...

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. Through this three-year award beginning June 1, 2023, UCSD will investigate olfactory learning and neuromodulation in the Aedes aegypti mosquito vector. The research aims to elucidate the role of dopamine-mediated plasticity in early olfactory circuits and how...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station (CAES) received a $322,096 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 February 5, 2026, with a completion date of January 31, 2028. The research project, titled "Uncovering the Biological Drivers of Aedes Aegypti Vector Competence," will systematically investigate the relative...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $999,479 to Vectech, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop advanced artificial intelligence (AI) methods for automated identification of mosquito species from high-resolution images. The goal is to enable more accessible and scalable vector surveillance data collection to support public health institutions in their...

Federal Grant Award Summary Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University received a $611,861 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) for the period September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2030. The project investigates chromosomal rearrangements in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the primary vector for dengue, Zika, and other arboviral diseases affecting approximately...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, awarded Columbia University a $1,301,878 Project Grant on May 15, 2026, to support fundamental research into the regulation of female mating receptivity in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research deliverables include scientific findings on the signals and behaviors controlling successful mosquito mating, with particular...

This $130,064 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports collaborative research to develop new statistical algorithms for analyzing spatiotemporal data on vector-borne disease transmission, using dengue virus in Rio de Janeiro as a case study. The project aims to address methodological challenges in modeling complex, nonlinear, and partially-observed spatial-temporal systems, with the goal of...