Iowa State receives $1 million USDA grant to study animal health

This donation will be used to study antimicrobial resistance in animal production systems.
This donation will be used to study antimicrobial resistance in animal production systems. | Fille photo

Iowa State University recently received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

“We want to identify control points where we see reservoirs of resistance," Michelle Soupir, an ISU associate professor, said. "Once we do that, we can help figure out where mitigation efforts will work best. We’d like to be able to say where those critical control points are in three years, and we’d like to be able to say which organisms harbor the resistance genes.”

This donation will be used to study antimicrobial resistance in animal production systems.

“It’s a real global threat to public health," assistant professor Adina Howe said. "Infections will persist and spread if the treatments we have stop working.”