CDC Seed Projects - FY 2009

 

CDC/University of Georgia SEED AWARDS- FY 2009

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and University of Georgia (CDC/UGA) seed award program provides pilot research project funding to enhance collaborative scientific innovation and technology development at the interface of human, veterinary, and ecological health, increase the number and quality of research outputs and strengthen collaborative interactions between CDC and UGA scientists. Successful applications most responsive to the CDC/UGA guidelines for seed grant funding have collaborative, interdisciplinary research in the following broad priority areas:

1. Public health (e.g., infectious diseases, chronic diseases, injury and environmental health)
2. Veterinary medicine (e.g., wildlife, companion animals, surveillance, risk analysis, disease detection and prevention, and human interface)
3. Ecological science (e.g., climate change, entomology, spatial analysis, mathematical and environmental modeling, environmental exposures/conditions, informatics, and infectious disease ecology)

Awards are funded at $50,000 total per project/year with each institution providing $25,000 per year. The maximum total budget for the two year project period is $100,000 ($50,000 total per institution). Second year funding is contingent upon submittal of a satisfactory progress report.

In fiscal year 2009, the following projects received funding:

UGA PI Name	CDC PI Name	Title	Abstract
Sonia P.Altizer	Charles E. Rupprecht	Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of vampire bat-transmitted rabies outbreaks	Project Abstract
Jessica Kissinger	Venkatachalam Udhayakumar	Development of simple, field-usable molecular tools for the diagnosis of malaria	Project Abstract
Michael J. Yabsley	Michael R. Levin	Ecosystem health and human health: understanding the ecological effects of prescribed fire regimes on the distribution and population dynamics of tick-borne zoonoses	Project Abstract
Egbert Mundt, Holly Sellers	Mark Papania, Ruben Donis	Aerosol delivery of a virus-like-particle vaccine against H5N1 avian influenza in poultry	Project Abstract
Richard Dluhy	Paul Rota	High sensitivity nano-optical method to detect measles virus in clinical samples	Project Abstract

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