Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT200100732
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Safeguarding Australia against vector-borne disease bio-incursions. Traditional diagnostic tests limited by their accuracy and ability to detect more than a few pathogens at one time, presents a major hurdle to protecting Australia's companion animals from a plethora of exotic and emerging vector-borne diseases (VBD). Many of these diseases also pose a major risk to public health. This project aims to develop, validate and verify a highly accurate, cost-effective, portable metabarcoding diagnostic test capable of detecting known, emerging and novel parasitic, bacterial and viral VBD pathogens simultaneously, from clinical samples. The assay will represent a potential paradigm shift in the way VBD are tested, for the purpose of safeguarding Australia against VBD bio-incursions.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2021
End Date: 06-2026
Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships
Funding Amount: $1,087,328.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Veterinary Sciences | Veterinary Microbiology (excl. Virology) | Veterinary Diagnosis and Diagnostics | Veterinary Virology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Pre-Border Biosecurity | Veterinary Diagnostics | Disease Distribution and Transmission (incl. Surveillance and Response) |
