Smallpox Research Oversight Activities

Post Date

August 15th 2013

Application Due Date

August 30th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

EP-IDS-13-003

CFDA Number(s)

93.019

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Health

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

only eligible canditate is the World Health Organization

Funding

• Award Range:

  $290000 - $290000

Grant Description

To ensure the development of medical countermeasure products to protect against a potential emergence of smallpox and to establish a diagnostic capacity able to identify a re-emergence of smallpox, particularly under conditions where systemic orthopoxvirus infections such as monkeypox, vaccinia virus infection or cowpox, and other non-pox viral rash illnesses, such as chicken pox, may cause clinical diagnostic confusion.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  HHS - Office of the Secretary

• Agency Contact:

  Barbara Orlando
  Chief Grants Management Officer
  Phone 202-245-0961

• Agency Mailing Address:

  barbara.orlando@hhs.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  barbara.orlando@hhs.gov

• Location:

  Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response