New NSF-NIH-USDA-BBSRC grants fund research on how infectious diseases are transmitted

A joint National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) program is supporting new research efforts. The goal of the EEID program is to understand the underlying ecological and biological mechanisms behind human-induced environmental changes and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases.
NSF and NIH--in collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the United Kingdom's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)--recently awarded $20.7 million in 12 new EEID grants.
At NSF, the EEID program is supported by the Directorates for Biological Sciences and Geosciences.
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Important: Effective January 2013, NSF merit review criteria have changed, including a new requirement that project summaries be entered in online text box forms. See the NSF overview for more information.