BIVI Awards Second $50,000 in Grants for PED Data Sharing Programs

April 1, 2015 — 

For the second year, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI), has awarded $50,000 in Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) research grants. This year’s grants will again be shared by the University of California, Davis, Iowa State University and University of Minnesota to further the work on PED disease BioPortal, a collaborative web-based monitoring system that provides real-time or near-real time access to local, regional, and global disease information and analytical data. [Source: BIVI News Release]

Last year’s inaugural BIVI PED research grants were awarded to the three universities to develop and launch both PED BioPortal and “PED News,” which aggregates disease information from around the world, summarizes it in English, and sends the information to subscribers with a link to the original source.

Developed and maintained by the Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS), BioPortal includes an interactive temporal-spacio visualizer and provides access to publicly available databases, as well as to private data through secure routing and sharing mechanisms.

To receive the “PED News,” subscribers can go to http://www.PEDreSOURCE.com or http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/cadms/news/ped.cfm to sign up and view previous issues.