OLATHE, Kan. — The Kansas Bioscience Authority has launched a $2.5 million initiative to create products that protect the nation’s food supply and protect Americans from the use of animal-born diseases to disrupt the economy or infect humans.
The initiative, called the Collaborative Biosecurity Research Initiative, is designed to promote inter-institutional research that will develop countermeasures for foreign-animal diseases; provide advanced test and evaluation capability for threat detection, vulnerability and countermeasure assessment for animal and zoonotic diseases; support the licensure of vaccine countermeasures; and strengthen biosecurity capabilities of institutions serving specific regions and populations.
"We are issuing a call today for the nation’s biggest researchers to partner with us to protect public health and safeguard the agriculture economy," said Tom Thornton, president of the K.B.A. "Our facilities are highly specialized and world-class, and our scientists are doing world-class research. Now is the time for collaboration to take on this important national challenge."
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