The Northeast Biodefense Center (NBC), a consortium of academic and governmental biomedical research institutions from New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut, and strategic partners from other states has been awarded a multi-year federal grant for biodefense research. The award establishes one of ten Regional Centers of Excellence (RCE) for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research.

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03.20.08 Ricin and Shiga Toxin Workshop to be held on June 18-19, 2008 at the Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY...
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12.21.07 NIAID releases RFA to renew funding for the Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases ... read the RFA

NBC HIGHLIGHTS

  • Moscona and collaborators develop high-throughput drug screen for Hendra / Nipah viruses... view PubMed abstract
  • Jelley-Gibbs reviews mechanisms of T cell memory formation... download the pdf
  • NBC Investigators Park and Steinman find dendritic cell targeting of antigen via CD207 is as efficient as the DEC205 receptor... download the pdf
  • Seligman identifies conserved sequence in fusion peptide of flaviviruses... download the pdf
  • Smiley reviews vaccines against pneumonic plague... view PubMed abstract
  • Aguilar, Basler, Palese and Garcia-Sastre collaborate to identify 1918 influenza HA, NA and PB1 genes in high virulence phenotype... dowload the pdf
  • Do, Park and Steinman acheive broad T cell immunity by targeting Y. pestis LcrV to Dec205+ dendritic cells... download the pdf
  • Palese identifies regions in Influenza A Pol gene are required for efficient viral RNA
    packaging... download the pdf
  • Garcia-Sastre and Palese use NDV vaccine platform expressing influenza H5 to vaccinate poultry in ovo... download the pdf
  • NBC Investigator Herold studies immune response of influenza vaccine in pediatric transplant patients... download the pdf
  • Park and Palese expand coding capacity of NDV by creating segmented genome... download the pdf
  • Casadevall and colleagues analyze and review epitope data for B. anthracis and C. botulinum... view PubMed abstract
  • Career Developnemt recipient Khader reviews inflammatory cytokines in Tuberculosis... download the pdf
  • Renwick, Briese and Lipkin detect new rhinovirus in undiagnosed respiratory infections of children in Germany... download the pdf
  • Lipkin and colleagues develop method to create comprehensive viral probes for microarrays... download the pdf

  • Inter-RCE collaboration between Garcia-Sastre and Virgin leads to discovery of how viral proteases antagonize certain innate immune responses... download the pdf
  • Lipkin and colleagues use high-throughput sequencing to establish correlation between Israeli acute paralysis virus and Colony Collapse Disorder in honeybees ... download the pdf
  • Lipkin and Briese collaborate with investigators in Oregon and Texas to discover that WNV activates multiple unfolded protein response pathways and leads to apoptosis... download the pdf
  • Derbyshire and Jacobs study Mycobacteria smegmatis as a DNA vaccine platform... download the pdf
  • NBC Investigator Severinov shows the E. coli Yej transporter is required for Microcin C uptake... download the pdf

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