Tick‐Borne Disease Idea Development Award (DOD)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.30997
• Date: 02 April 2020
• Published date: 02 April 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-AMS-TM-

LFPP-G-20-0001

Farmers Market Promotion Program (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s Agricultural

Marketing Service seeks applications for the Farmers

Market Promotion Program to develop, coordinate

and expand direct producer-to-consumer markets to

help increase access to and availability of regionally

produced agricultural products.

Deadline: May 11, 2020.

Funds: $13.5 million total for up to 60 awards ranging

from $50,000 to $500,000. A 25% match is required.

Eligibility: Domestic entities owned, operated and

located within the 50 U.S. states, the District of

Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth

of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of

Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Areas: USDA said funding supports projects that

develop, coordinate and expand direct producer-to-

consumer markets to help increase access to and

availability of locally and regionally produced agricultural

products by developing, coordinating, expanding and

providing outreach, training and technical assistance to

domestic farmers markets, roadside stands, community-

supported agriculture programs, agritourism activities,

online sales or other direct producer-to-consumer

(including direct producer-to-retail, direct producer-to-

restaurant and direct producer-to-institutional marketing)

market opportunities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-AMS-TM-

FMPP-G-20-0002

Acer Access and Development Program (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s Agricultural

Marketing Service seeks applications for the Acer

Access and Development Program to support the efforts

of states, tribal governments and research institutions to

promote the domestic maple syrup industry.

Deadline: May 11, 2020.

Funds: $6 million total for up to 25 awards of up to

$500,000.

Eligibility: States and Native American tribal

governments.

Areas: USDA said supported activities include:

promotion of research and education related to maple

syrup production; promotion of natural resource

sustainability in the maple syrup industry; market

promotion for maple syrup and maple-sap products; and

encouragement of owners and operators of privately

held land containing species of trees in the genus Acer

to initiate or expand maple-sugaring activities on the

land, or to voluntarily make the land available, including

by lease or other means, for access by the public for

maple-sugaring activities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-AMS-TM-

ACER-G-20-0006

Tick-Borne Disease Career Development Award

(DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for

the Tick-Borne Disease (TBD) Career Development

Award announcement to support independent, early-

career investigators in their efforts to conduct impactful

research with the mentorship of an experienced TBD

researcher, thus providing an opportunity to obtain

the funding, guidance and experience necessary for

productive, independent careers at the forefront of TBD

research.

Deadline: Pre-applications, May 27, 2020; proposals,

Aug. 27, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $1.44 million total for three Career

Development Award applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said applications must address at least one

of the following specic focus areas in Lyme disease

and other TBDs with emphasis on reducing public

health burden: diagnosis—sensitive and specic direct

detection diagnostic assay for Borrelia and/or other

tick-borne pathogens; treatment—therapeutic strategies

for treating acute and persistent TBDs; prevention—

drugs, antibodies or other novel approaches that can be

administered and/or utilized prophylactically to prevent

human TBDs; and pathogenesis—pathogenesis of

persistent clinical manifestations associated with Lyme

disease and other TBDs.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-TBDRP-CDA

Tick-Borne Disease Idea Development Award

(DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for

the Tick-Borne Disease Idea Development Award

announcement to support research that could lead to

impactful discoveries or signicant advancements that

will accelerate progress toward improving Lyme disease

and/or other tick-borne disease research, patient care

and/or quality of life for military service members,

veterans and their beneciaries, as well as the American

public.

Deadline: Pre-applications, May 27, 2020; proposals,

Aug. 27, 2020.

Funds: $4.8 million total for up to ve awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

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