This week’s topics include restructuring of ASPR, anti-vaccine leadership at NIH, the UK’s new pathogen priority research targets list, and data on a post-exposure treatment for filoviruses. FEATURED Trump Administration…

USDA Announces HPAI Poultry Innovation Grand Challenge

New Virus Characterization Center Will Conduct Sweeping Study of Human Viruses

Caltech Joins National Human Virome Program

Contracts + Grants

U.S. Awards $306 Million to Bolster H5N1 Response

Tools for Dealing with Radiation Exposures: IARPA Invests $3.8M from TEI-REX Program

New Partnerships Boost Decentralized Clinical Trial Capacity for Public Health Emergencies

Toxic Exposures Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for 2024

DoD Tick-Borne Disease Research Funding Opportunities in 2024

State Department Seeks Contract Support for Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism

BARDA Looks to Advance Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing (mNGS)

DARPA Announces EQUIP-A-Pharma Program to Advance Agile Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

NIAID Funding Development of Biomarkers and Tools for Radiation Emergency Triage

Promising New ‘circRNA’ Vaccines Explored in CEPI-HMRI Collaboration

SOCOM Seeks Point-of-Need Water Testing System

7-1-7 Alliance Announces New Research Grant Opportunity

ARPA-H Announces New Tiered Proposal Submission System to Reduce Applicant Barriers

Virginia Tech Lab Selected for National Partnership to Fight Emerging Diseases

APHIS Announces Funding for Tribes to Support Animal Disease Preparedness and Response

Mount Sinai to Lead Development of Pan-Coronavirus Vaccine Under New Federal Grant

NIAID Seeks to Improve Computational Models of Influenza Immunity

HHS Extends Partnership with Regeneron to Develop Life-Saving Monoclonal Antibodies

NIAID Seeks Proposals for Virology Core Laboratory Contract

DOE SLAC Team Awarded $12M to Improve Response Time to Dangerous Pathogens

Biodefense Headlines – 31 March 2025

World Vaccine Congress 2025

International Symposium on Transboundary and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases

Preparedness Summit 2025

BBSRC Sparking Innovation Conference 2025

Astrobiodefense: Biological Threats and the Next Frontier