SBIR TOPIC 107 REAGENTS FOR IMMUNOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF NON- MAMMALIAN AND UNDERREPRESENTED MAMMALIAN MODELS

NIH RePORTER · NIH · N43 · $596,519 · view on reporter.nih.gov ↗

Abstract

The hamster is a well-established model for several infectious diseases including influenza and SARS-CoV-2. Lack of hamster reagents has hampered pre-clinical studies of viral pathogenesis, host immunity, and vaccine development. The objectives of this proposal are to produce and test monoclonal antibodies against 10 cytokines and chemokines and 4 T cell surface markers for characterizing cytokine responses and examining T cells activation in the hamster models of respiratory infections. Completion of this project will provide high-affinity monoclonal antibodies that allow investigators to distinguish innate and adaptive inflammatory cytokine and chemokine responses as well as activated T cells, memory T cells, tissue resident memory T cells, and regulatory T cells in the hamster models of infectious diseases.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10688716
Project number
75N93022C00044-0-9999-1
Recipient
Principal Investigator
TORI RACE
Activity code
N43
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2022
Award amount
$596,519
Award type
Project period
2022-09-30 → 2024-09-29