FFAR Vet Fellows Fourth Cohort Year Awarded 2022 Total award amount $10,000 per student Location Washington, D.C. Matching Funders American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) announced the 13 recipients of the 2022 Veterinary Student Research Fellowships (Vet Fellows) in partnership with the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). This fellowship creates opportunities for veterinary students to pursue research on global food security and sustainable animal production.
August 3, 2022 – August 5, 2022 Amplifying Underrepresented Voices in Agricultural Gene Editing Signature Event Montgomery, Alabama
ICASA: Antimicrobial Use Monitoring and Benchmarking in U.S. Feedyards Year Awarded 2022 FFAR award amount $200,000 Total award amount $400,022 Location Manhattan, TX Matching Funders Cargill, Kansas State University, Tyson Foods and Yum! Brands Grantee Institution Kansas State University Kansas State University researchers are developing a sustainable, practical system for individual beef producers to evaluate and report their antimicrobial usage in context of others across the beef feedlot industry.
ICASA: Fecal microbiota transplant to reduce post-weaning diarrhea and antibiotic use Year Awarded 2022 FFAR award amount $140,001 Total award amount $311,354 Location West Lafayette, IN Matching Funders National Pork Board and Purdue University Grantee Institution Purdue University College of Agriculture Purdue University researchers are investigating using fecal microbiota, or stool, transplants to reduce post-weaning diarrhea and antibiotic use in swine.
ICASA: Defining the contribution of acidosis to the liver abscess complex using novel challenge model to delineate impacts of diet composition and feeding management on liver abscess pathogenesis Year Awarded 2022 FFAR award amount $266,748 Total award amount $542,475 Location Canyon, TX Matching Funders Cactus Feeders and West Texas A&M University Grantee Institution West Texas A&M University West Texas A&M University researchers are developing a unique, repeatable method that induces liver abscesses in feedlot cattle to further investigate the relationship between acids in the rumen, the first chamber of a cow’s four-chamber stomach, and liver abscesses.
ICASA: Novel Strategies to Improve Understanding of Liver Abscess Formation and Mitigation in Beef Cattle Year Awarded 2022 FFAR award amount $125,000 Total award amount $250,000 Location Lubbock, TX Matching Funders Texas Tech University Grantee Institution Texas Tech University Texas Tech University researchers are investigating the gastrointestinal location, concentration and movement of F. necrophorum and Salmonella enterica, as well as the other organisms that live in the intestines of cattle with liver abscesses. This first phase of this research will inform a methodology to reduce F. necrophorum through a direct-fed microbial.
ICASA: Pathogen-host interaction during the development of liver abscesses; local and systemic immune and metabolic responses during Fusobacterium necrophorum challenges Year Awarded 2022 FFAR award amount $97,400 Total award amount $195,140 Location Lubbock, TX Matching Funders Texas Tech University Grantee Institution Texas Tech University Texas Tech University researchers are identifying potential pathways in which the bacteria subvert the hosts’ defenses during the development of liver abscess to lay the foundation for the formation of novel approaches, such as alternative drugs, that can potentially replace antimicrobials in liver abscess control and prevention strategies.
ICASA: Liver abscesses in feedlot cattle; further delineation of the etiology and pathogenesis Year Awarded 2022 FFAR award amount $125,000 Total award amount $280,000 Location Manhattan, KS Matching Funders Cargill Incorporated , Micronutrients Corporation ,and Phibro Animal Health Corporation Grantee Institution Kansas State University Kansas State University researchers are identifying specific bacterial species in cattle liver abscesses beyond the primary species, Fusobacterium necrophorum, and determining their prevalence and involvement in abscess formation, especially in the under-studied hindgut segment of the gastrointestinal tract. This research could help identify new interventions to minimize the occurrence of liver abscesses in cattle.