Project Grant SISNDF22GR0006

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $15,754,880.00 and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283), aims to strengthen national health laboratory services and partnerships in Uganda for quality HIV-related testing and other diagnostics. The award, which has an end date of September 29, 2029, will support improved laboratory coordination and management under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Global AIDS program (CFDA 93.067), supports the Global Health Systems Solutions (GHSS) organization in building and improving integrated laboratory capacity and quality services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Specifically, the $11,097,080 award will enable GHSS to: 1) scale up quality assurance and improvement for HIV...

The Department of Defense, through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), awarded a $1,857,470 Cooperative Agreement to The Geneva Foundation to develop a multiplex testing platform that can simultaneously detect and identify Plasmodium species infections. This platform will serve as both a diagnostic tool and an epidemiological surveillance tool. The project performance period is from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2028. Under a $268,312 sub-award, Meso Scale...

This $344,942 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) will support the development and field testing of "Prepare2Respond" online train-the-trainer learning modules for tabletop exercises focused on animal disease outbreak response. The project, led by Washington State University, aims to build a nationally available...

The Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $175,423 cooperative agreement to CRDF Global to enhance physical security measures at a high containment laboratory in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo from June 2022 through December 2023. The funding supports the Global Threat Reduction program, which aims to reduce biological threats through securing vulnerable high-containment pathogen stocks. Specifically, the award will enhance physical...

This $1,062,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) supports the "Pandemic Environmental Surveillance Center for Assessing Pathogen Emergence (PANDEMIC ESCAPE)" project. The goal is to develop simplified environmental surveillance (ES) tools to enhance pathogen monitoring and prediction capabilities, train the next generation of ES scientists, and accelerate the adoption of ES as a pandemic prevention tool. Key activities...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care (CFDA 10.025) program provides $1,122,000.00 over 4 years to fund the strategic placement of a scientist at a National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) laboratory. The scientist will be responsible for evaluating local and regional diagnostic methodologies, conducting regional risk assessments,...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (CFDA 19.224) aims to strengthen the security of the global nucleic acid synthesis (NAS) screening industry. The award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, supports the Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC), a non-profit organization, in developing a set of internationally recognized best practices for the NAS screening industry. The project focuses on...

This $199,979 EAGER award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will develop an open-source large language model to rapidly identify, verify, prioritize, summarize, and predict outcomes of emerging disease threats across humans, animals, and plants. The project, titled "The BioThreats Emergence, Analysis, and Communications Network (BEACON)", aims to create a specialized AI/machine learning system that can process vast datasets to detect...

The District of Columbia Department of Health (DC Health) was awarded a $2,130,996 Cooperative Agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283) to support epidemiology and laboratory capacity for prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases in the National Capital Region. The award period runs from Aug 1, 2024 to Jul 31, 2029. The funding will enable DC Health and its Public Health Laboratory to enhance...