USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation have approved approximately $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 research grants are as follows. 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.

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 USPOULTRY Board Research Initiative was created by the boards of USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation to address current issues facing the poultry industry. The USPOULTRY Board Research Initiative operates alongside the USPOULTRY Comprehensive Research Program and augments the great success of the existing program by focusing additional resources toward defined areas of research.

USPOULTRY and its Foundation operate an extensive research program incorporating all phases of poultry and egg production and processing. Since the inception of the research program, USPOULTRY has reinvested more than $37 million, or $65 million adjusted for inflation, into the industry in the form of research grants. More than 50 universities and federal and state facilities have received grants over the years.