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Learn moreUpdate on Funded Developmental Grants
PREPARE has recently funded two separate Developmental Grant opportunities. The first opportunity was our collaborative HIV/Mpox opportunity with SD CFAR. That provided $60,000 in funding to San Diego State University's Dr. Megan Ebor to support her project, "Strategies to Enhance Prevention Equity (StEP Equity)." UC San Diego's Dr. Partha Ray also received $50,000 to support his project, "An Optical Biosensor Based Point-of-Care Antigen Test for the Rapid Detection of the Monkeypox Virus." The second opportunity was the PREPARE stand-alone opportunity in Pandemic Prevention Research. That provided funding support to two separate PREPARE faculty members. Dr. Aaron Carlin received $50,000 to support his project, "Identifying Zika Virus Transcriptional Regulators in Dendritic Cells." And Dr. Ahnika Kline received $50,000 for "Metagenomic Sequencing of BAL to Identify Emerging Pathogens." Congratulations to all the early stage investigators on their awards!
Developmental Grants in Pandemic Prevention and Human Milk Research
This funding opportunity is offered in collaboration with the Human Milk Institute (HMI) to develop strategies to rapidly assess human milk's safety at pandemic onset and learn more about the application of human milk's potential to help thwart future pandemics. Two awards may be given at the $50,000 level to support individual early stage investigators (pre-R01) or one award at the $100,000 level to support an established investigator (R01 or above) working with an early stage Co-I. The period of performance for all funded projects is one year from the date of final approval. The submission deadline is Wednesday, February 1at 5:00 pm.
Our Mission
Engage, support and foster scientific discovery and implementation within the San Diego community to predict, prevent and mitigate local, national, global and emerging infectious threats.
Our Team
Together, we leverage collective knowledge and innovation to reduce the impact of pandemics. PREPARE Institute faculty are experts in surveillance, proactive therapeutics and vaccine research, health behaviors and public policy.
What we do
Core facilities within the PREPARE Institute provide expertise, resources, services and coordination with an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration.