PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To support animal health and disease research at eligible Schools and Colleges of Veterinary Medicine, and State Agricultural Experiment Stations whose purpose is to improve the health and productivity of food animals and horses through effective prevention, control or treatment of disease, reduction of losses from transportation and other hazards, and protect human health through control of animal diseases transmissible to people.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. AGRICULTURE;
- Research and Development;
2. EDUCATION;
- General Research and Evaluation;
3. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY;
- Research, Education, Training;
4. FOOD AND NUTRITION;
- Research;
5. HEALTH;
- Communicable Diseases;
- Health Research - General;
- Specialized Health Research and Training;
6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Research - Specialized;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- Public nonprofit institution/organization;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);