{"id":9337,"date":"2025-10-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2025-10-26T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:43:04","slug":"federal-contract-for-up-to-40-million-fuels-research-to-revolutionize-clean-indoor-air-and-defend-against-next-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-contract-for-up-to-40-million-fuels-research-to-revolutionize-clean-indoor-air-and-defend-against-next-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Contract for up to $40 Million Fuels Research to Revolutionize Clean Indoor Air and Defend Against Next Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a public building catches fire, its built-in systems automatically respond: Smoke alarms blare, sprinklers kick on, and occupants quickly evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>But what if the life-threatening danger isn\u2019t fire but invisible airborne contaminants that can make occupants sick? Could a similar smart-building system monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors, where Americans spend 90&nbsp;percent of their time?<\/p>\n<p>With a contract for up to $40&nbsp;million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an ambitious multi-institutional research team led by Virginia Tech and including researchers at the University of California, Davis, aims to create just such a system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a public building catches fire, its built-in systems automatically respond: Smoke alarms blare, sprinklers kick on, and occupants quickly evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>But what if the life-threatening danger isn\u2019t fire but invisible airborne contaminants that can make occupants sick? Could a similar smart-building system monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors, where Americans spend 90&nbsp;percent of their time?<\/p>\n<p>With a contract for up to $40&nbsp;million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an ambitious multi-institutional research team led by Virginia Tech and including researchers at the University of California, Davis, aims to create just such a system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-contract-for-up-to-40-million-fuels-research-to-revolutionize-clean-indoor-air-and-defend-against-next-pandemic\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal Contract for up to $40 Million Fuels Research to Revolutionize Clean Indoor Air and Defend Against Next Pandemic<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112,1132,111,1050,162,18,44,77,8,80,49,14,1386,51,850,1200,1387],"class_list":["post-9337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-monitors","tag-air-quality","tag-air-samplers","tag-breathe","tag-california","tag-covid-19","tag-indoor-air-quality","tag-influenza","tag-research","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-uc-davis","tag-united-states","tag-university-of-california","tag-virginia","tag-virginia-tech","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9339,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions\/9339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}