# CVM Vet-LRN Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Program

> **NIH FDA U18** · MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $30,000

## Abstract

Abstract
Expanded national laboratory capacity to respond to animal food/drug related illnesses
or other large-scale animal food/feed emergency events requiring surge capacity testing
of implicated diagnostic or animal food samples is required to ensure food safety in
humans. Food safety directly affects the food chain through biological and chemical
contaminants in animal feeds
The Breathitt Veterinary Center is a fully accredited (AAVLD) animal disease diagnostic
laboratory strategically located in Western Kentucky.
The objective of this grant application is to support activity by the Breathitt Veterinary
Center in the FDA CVM Vet-LRN Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Program. The FDA
Vet-LRN grant program is a mutually beneficial opportunity in which the laboratory
receives support to advance its scientific scope and the FDA CVM adds to the national
laboratory capacity. Funding provided through a cooperative agreement will be used to
provide equipment, supplies, training, and proficiency testing requested by the FDA Vet-
LRN on an annualized basis for a five-year period.
The Specific Aims of this proposal are:
1) To strengthen coordination of veterinary diagnostic laboratory efforts as related to the
safety of the food supply;
2) To train, equip and proficiency test technicians to perform such testing as is
necessary to ensure the safety of the food supply;
3) To participate in the Vet LIRN Whole Genome Sequencing Project by providing
bacterial samples as a Source Laboratory.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10189602
- **Project number:** 5U18FD006155-05
- **Recipient organization:** MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Debbie Carol Reed
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $30,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-08-01 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10189602

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10189602, CVM Vet-LRN Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Program (5U18FD006155-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10189602. Licensed CC0.

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