April 2, 2025
             

USPOULTRY and Foundation approve US$305,000 in new research through Board Research Initiative Program

USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation have approved approximately US$305,000 in funding for three new research grants at three institutions through the Board Research Initiative Program.

The USPOULTRY board of directors selected the topics and requests for proposals. The Foundation Research Advisory Committee evaluated all research proposals and then recommended which proposals to fund to the board. The proposals include:

    - "Improving Efficiency in the Delivery of HVT Vector Vaccines", North Carolina State University;

    - "One-Shot-Triple Immunity: Novel Universal Live Recombinant NDV Vaccine Expressing the Neutralizing Epitopes of G and F Proteins of Newly Emerged aMPV/ A and B in the U.S.", South Dakota State University;

"Agent-Based Model of Transmission of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Between Wild Birds and Commercial Poultry", Purdue University (research grant made possible in part by the American Egg Board)

The research funding was made possible in part by donations to the USPOULTRY Foundation. The donations came from a wide range of poultry and egg companies, individuals and families to support the Foundation's mission of funding industry research and recruiting students into poultry careers.

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