SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of a Point-of-care Assay for the Detection of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) Virus, a Militarily Important Pathogen of the CENTCOM and AFRICOM Ar
Award amount
$119,948Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- VECTOR TEST SYSTEMS
- Proposal award date
- 2009-01-26
- Contract end date
- 2010-04-18
- UEI
- GRN3US6M4YQ5
- Solicitation number
- 2008.3
- Topic code
- A08-180
Research abstract
Rift Valley fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease that is a significant threat to human and livestock. VecTOR Test Systems, Inc. will develop a point-of-care assay for detection of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) infection in deployed military service members. The assay capable of detecting RVFV antigen as well as specific IgM response in clinical samples will aid in the diagnosis of infected personnel. The technology is based on the simple and reliable immunochromatographic detection method by which sensitive test-strip based assays provide results in less than 30 minutes. The proposed assays will be easy to perform and results easy to interpret in far-forward situations. The assay will be made available in a kit with components required to perform the assay. The assay kit will be stable at ambient storage conditions. In Phase I, a sufficient number of assays will be manufactured to evaluate performance and determine plan for the next phase.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Establishment and optimization of Immuno-chromatographic Test for Detection of African Swine Fever virus
- Rapid Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease) from Ticks
- Rapid Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease) from Ticks
- Deployable Pan-flavivirus and Pan-alphavirus Assays for Screening Pools of Medically Relevant Arthropod
- Deployable Pan-flavivirus and Pan-alphavirus Assays for Screening Pools of Medically Relevant Arthropod
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Development of a Point-of-care Assay for the Detection of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) Virus, a Militarily Important Pathogen of the CENTCOM and AFRICOM Ar
- Development of a Point-of-care Assay for the Detection of Rift Valley Fever Virus, a Militarily Important Pathogen of the CENTCOM and AFRICOM Area of
Research funding history
20 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2020). Reported award amounts total $7,700,525. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture