One Voice/One Vision Campaign

The Mosquito Research Foundation (MRF) was established in 2011 by mosquito control professionals to provide funding for research with a direct, practical value to the mosquito control industry. Initial funding came, for the most part, from the organized mosquito abatement districts within the State of California.  After two years of favorable results, MRF expanded its scope and began funding research projects beyond the State of California in 2013, 2014 and 2015.  MRF’s efforts continue provide positive contributions to the mosquito control across the United States.

 The Mosquito Research Foundation is committed to funding the development, implementation of a strategic research program that can provide broader solutions to mosquito control on a national and international level.  There are a number of reasons why:

With the growing worldwide awareness of the very real danger posed by rapidly emerging or reemerging diseases such as West Nile virus, chikungunya and dengue fever, finding ways to control mosquito-borne pathogens before these diseases become epidemics is of critical importance.  The Mosquito Research Foundation can help find the solutions to these challenges by funding the critically important research that will be required.

The Mosquito Research Foundation has launched the One Voice/One Vision - Mosquito Research Matters campaign with a goal of $150,000 over three years to continue to grow its program of mosquito control research.  The Foundation will be approaching those organizations, individuals, and corporations with a vested interest in vector control for support of this initiative.  Initial fundraising activity will focus on the creation of a "Challenge Fund", to be used to match gifts from a larger pool of individual, corporate, foundation and organizational donors whose participation will be essential to our success. The final stage of the Campaign will be characterized by an appeal to the widest possible audience on the basis of the national importance of the research to be funded.

With this level of enhanced research funding, the Mosquito Research Foundation will be able to fund an aggressive program of practical, applied research focused on compelling national and international public health issues on a far more effective basis than has been possible to date. 

A sample of the research that MRF has already funded: 

Peter Piermarini – Eliciting ‘indigestion’ in mosquitoes:  evaluation of a molecular target for the development of new adulticides that disrupt blood digestion

Scott Bernhardt – Evaluation of methoprene, an insect growth regulator, to potential development of resistance in Culex tarsalis and Culex pipiens mosquitoes

William Walton – Integrated Vector Management of Constructed Treatment Wetlands

Christopher M. Barker – Controlling the invasion and spread of Aedes albopictus in the Los Angeles Basin.

Please visit our website at www.MosquitoResearch.org  for more information and complete list of research