Project Grant R44AI112048

Farmsense, Inc. received a $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The award supports the development of an automated, digital classification and counting system for mosquitoes to enable more effective vector control. The project aims to create an end-to-end digital platform for mosquito surveillance that can support the work of vector control districts. The platform will leverage real-time insect...

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...

Federal Grant Award Summary Synvect, Inc. received a $302,537 Project Grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for February 28, 2026. The project, NextGenSIT, aims to finalize development and commercialization of an innovative genetic engineering solution for biological control of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the primary vector for dengue,...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $439,375 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on February 19, 2026, under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855). The award supports research and development of novel genetic control technologies targeting Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit dengue, chikungunya, and zika viruses. The project focuses on creating female-killing...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded the University of California, San Diego $588,514 under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) on July 21, 2025, with a completion date of June 30, 2030. This project grant funds the development of novel mosquito control technologies targeting Aedes aegypti, a primary vector for disease transmission. The research will generate conditional and female-lethal gene...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded Boston University a $1.47 million Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. This award supports fundamental neuroscience research investigating how the Aedes aegypti mosquito brain processes human odor cues to locate and bite human hosts. The research deliverables include identification of neurons encoding human...

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...

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...

Federal Grant Award Summary Texas A&M University System Health Science Center received a $423,125 Project Grant award dated July 17, 2025, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to support research extending through June 30, 2027. The project focuses on developing an intein-based QF2 (quinic acid-inducible) system for controllable protein expression in the nervous system of Aedes aegypti...

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;...