# Purchase of a Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction System to Maintain and Expand VetLIRN Capacity

> **NIH FDA U18** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2024 · $27,096

## Abstract

There is a public health need for veterinary laboratories to have significant capacity to test
animal diagnostic specimens and food/feed samples rapidly and accurately for the presence of
important pathogens including Salmonella, Campylobacter, Listeria and SARS-CoV-2. The FDA
Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network (Vet-LIRN) is a group of veterinary
laboratories tasked with protecting the health of humans by being able to rapidly and robustly
respond to outbreaks associated with animals and animal products. This equipment-only grant
requests support for the purchase of a QuantStudio 3 real-time polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) system to maintain the capacity of a Vet-LIRN member laboratory (Ryan Small Animal
Hospital Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania) to perform testing
for diagnostic, monitoring and surveillance purposes. It will also allow the laboratory to more
fully engage with proficiency testing and interlaboratory comparison exercises developed by
Vet-LIRN.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11066640
- **Project number:** 1U18FD008364-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Stephen Douglas Cole
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $27,096
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-10 → 2025-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11066640

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11066640, Purchase of a Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction System to Maintain and Expand VetLIRN Capacity (1U18FD008364-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11066640. Licensed CC0.

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