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.

NEWS
07.17.08 NIAID Discovery News spotlights NBC Director W. Ian Lipkin and his pathogen discovery research... read the NIAID article

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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12.26.07 PSWRCE announces registration for Diagnostics Workshop ...get more information

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

  • Palese and the Proteomics Core identify host cell proteins that are associated with influenza virions... download the pdf

  • Rose determines immunological efficacy of Semliki Forest virus-VSV glycoprotein hybrid particles as a vaccine vector... download the pdf

  • Bliska and colleagues at Stony Brook University evaluate the role of Caf1A in the biogenesis of
    the F1 capsule of Y. pestis.... download the pdf

  • Briese and Lipkin work with international collaborators to demonstrate transmission of fatal human respiratory viruses to Great Apes... download the pdf

  • Rose improves immune responses to VSV vector-based SARS vaccine... download the pdf

  • Goldman and Casadevall review anthrax-associated shock... download the pdf

  • 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

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