This opportunity funds small pilot projects aimed at enhancing the Human Virome Program by validating and improving existing and new tools, expanding cohorts and biospecimen sampling, developing assays and methods, and defining functional interactions between the human virome and host. Projects should complement current HVP efforts and foster collaboration within the consortium, leveraging human and animal specimens to advance understanding of the healthy human virome and its impact on health and disease.
Eligible applicants include U.S. state, county, city, and tribal governments, public and private educational institutions, nonprofits, for-profit organizations, small businesses, and others as specified. Foreign organizations and foreign subawards are not eligible.
