Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP240100714

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP240100714

Funding Status
Active

Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the .

Funded Activity Summary

Development of an immunology toolbox to combat emerging marsupial diseases. Disease is increasingly a driver of wildlife population declines in Australia. However, basic immunology tools for >99% of vertebrate species are scarce, limiting our ability to prevent and respond to emerging and endemic diseases, such as devil facial tumour disease and wobbly possum disease. The overarching goal of this project is to improve wildlife health and fill the marsupial immunology gap by developing a long-overdue multispecies marsupial immunology toolbox. The toolbox is needed to accelerate devil facial tumour disease vaccine progress and conservation immunology research. It will expand our knowledge of wobbly possum disease virus that is increasingly reported in Tasmania and the risk posed by the virus to other possum species.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2024

End Date: 12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $500,495.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Humoural immunology and immunochemistry | Immunology | Tumour immunology | Animal immunology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Related Links