# UI VDL PARTICIPATION IN VETERINARY LABORATORY INVESTIGATION AND RESPONSE NETWORK

> **NIH FDA U18** · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · 2020 · $63,440

## Abstract

Project Abstract
The University of Illinois Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (UI VDL) is a full-service AAVLD
accredited state laboratory and is also one member of the National Animal Health Laboratory
Network (NAHLN) and FDA Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network (Vet-
LIRN). The UI-VDL is capable to work with Vet-LIRN Cooperative Agreement Program to
increase national laboratory capacity to detect, respond to and recover from animal food or drug-
related illnesses and enhance the national food safety system. The well-equipped and staffed UI
VDL will actively participate the case investigation, data analysis and method development
assigned by Vet-LIRN.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9954053
- **Project number:** 5U18FD006673-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
- **Principal Investigator:** Carol W. Maddox
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $63,440
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-06-15 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9954053

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9954053, UI VDL PARTICIPATION IN VETERINARY LABORATORY INVESTIGATION AND RESPONSE NETWORK (5U18FD006673-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9954053. Licensed CC0.

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