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See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the lack of U.S. leadership in the current Ebola crisis, avian influenza preparedness grants, and a rare outbreak of Nipah virus in India. POLICY + [Read more] -
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) is the Department of Defense’s (DoD) lead laboratory for medical biological defense research. USAMRIID has awarded a sole source contract to Life Technologies Corporation (now [Read more] -
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including protection of the food supply from acts of terrorism, the risks posed by DIY biohackers (to themselves), and lessons from past pandemics. FOCUS ON EBOLA [Read more] -
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was the keynote speaker at the 128th annual Shattuck Lecture “Epidemics Going Viral: Innovation vs. Nature” on April 27. The event was hosted by the [Read more] -
The Experimental Therapeutics (ET) Branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) focuses on the development of new drugs to prevent and treat malaria, leishmaniosis, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and other infectious disease threats to [Read more] -
The U.S. Navy is awarding funding to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana in support of infectious disease research in Western Africa. The contract is on behalf of the U.S. Naval Medical Research [Read more]
