NIFA Invests $21.7M to Address Diseases in Agricultural Animals

In the 2024 funding cycle of the Diseases of Agricultural Animals program area priority within the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Foundational and Applied Science program area, awards focused on maintaining healthy agricultural animals to ensure a safe and adequate food supply by supporting research in:

• cellular, molecular, genetic/genomic and/or whole-animal aspects of animal health and disease including disease prevention and control
• development of therapeutics
• production of immune reagents for agricultural animals

In addition, 13 of these awards are focused on minimizing the risk and spread of High Pathogenic Avian Influenza in the United States and awarded in partnership with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

2024 Awardees:

• Case Western Reserve University
• Cornell University
• Duke University
• Kansas State University
• Montana State University
• North Carolina State University (2)
• North Dakota State University
• Northern Arizona University (2)
• Oklahoma State University
• Penn State
• Texas A&M AgriLife Research (2)
• Texas Tech University (2)
• The Ohio State University (3)
• South Dakota State University;
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2)
• University of Florida
• University of Georgia;
• University of Maryland (2)
• University of Maine
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2)
• University of Kentucky Research Foundation (4)
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Tennessee
• University of Virginia
• USDA Agricultural Research Service (2).