Domestic Laboratory Biosafety for Ebola and other Highly Infectious Diseases

Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-OE15-1504 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.322Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-CDCClosing Date: Apr 30, 2015Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Mar 31, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The purpose is to support APHL to develop a laboratory safety program for public health and clinical laboratories that provides: - Access to subject matter experts on clinical and public health laboratory safety for infectious agents, including highly infectious agents like Ebola. - Coordination of sharing of best practices among laboratories on safe handling and testing of specimens. - Assistance to laboratories for assessment of training, facilities, and equipment for safe handling and testing of specimens for highly infectious agents like Ebola. - Training to laboratories on laboratory safety risk assessement and risk mitigation.
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding