Two new grants at Kansas State University will be utilized to help protect global food supplies through the development of vaccines to protect swine and cattle from infectious diseases.
Combined, the grants exceed $1.2 million and are funded for a three-year period by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, or AFRI. They will be used to conduct two research projects in K-State’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
The first project is led by Waithaka Mwangi, professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology in the College of Veterinary…