Project Grant W911QY2010003

Novoclade, Inc. received a $181,500 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The funding supports the development of an innovative insect control method using genetically engineered sterile male Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) flies. Novoclade's approach aims to simplify the implementation of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) for SWD, a major agricultural pest causing an...

The U.S. Department of the Army awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Bio-Gene Technology Limited, a for-profit organization in Australia, for research and development efforts aimed at developing multi-use controlled release devices (MUW-CRDS) based on delivery of flavocide as a next-generation protection system for controlling flying insect vectors. This grant is funded through the Pest Management and Vector Control Research program (CFDA 12.355), which focuses on developing innovative...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded $132,156 under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care (CFDA 10.025) federal grant program to the University of California, San Diego for the development of genetically sterile Anastrepha ludens, or Mexican fruit fly, flies. The one-year cooperative agreement project aims to develop genetically sterile adult Mexican fruit flies for evaluation in sterile insect technique applications to protect...

This $189,313.00 Cooperative Agreement award from 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) aims to improve control of the Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) through the development of genetically modified sterile flies. The key objectives are to double sterile fly production while reducing costs and safety hazards associated with traditional irradiation methods. The...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $196,570 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The purpose of this award is to enhance current mitigation strategies for invasive fruit flies through the development of a control device that will kill mating females. The project will field test an auto-dissemination device that...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $433,303 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to the Trustees of Indiana University (IU Indianapolis) to develop the Yeast Endless Soda (YES) Feeding Station. This innovative system will utilize RNA interference (RNAi)-based yeast insecticides as attractive targeted sugar baits to selectively kill mosquitoes, which are vectors for dangerous mosquito-borne illnesses. The...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329), will fund research to develop yeast-based RNA interference (RNAi) pesticides targeting the invasive spotted-wing drosophila (SWD) pest. The $325,000 award to Michigan State University aims to create a new class of stakeholder-accepted, species-specific insecticides that can be deployed as baits or...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329), provides $325,000 to Michigan State University (MSU) to conduct research on developing biological control strategies for two key agricultural pests - spotted wing drosophila (SWD) and apple maggot fly (AMF). The key products and services to be delivered under this...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $170,660 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The purpose of this 1-year award, effective September 1, 2024, is to enhance current strategies for mitigating spinosad-resistant invasive fruit flies in Hawaii. The researchers will test the efficacy of different insecticide...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) provides $300,000 to support the development of a preventative treatment for tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and relapsing fever. The recipient, Planet Biotechnology Inc., is utilizing a plant-based protein expression system to produce variants of the FC3/SCR(19-20) protein, which has shown promise in blocking the...