Rick Bright Selected as New BARDA Director
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the selection of Dr. Rick Bright as the new Deputy ...
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Nobel Prize Winner Part of Chem-Bio Defense Research Portfolio
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, a researcher formerly funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Joint Science and Technology Office ...
UF Ebola Research Efforts Recognized by Aspen Institute Italia
A team of Italian and American researchers, including the University of Florida’s Ira Longini, Ph.D., has received the Aspen Institute ...
New Military Deputy Arrives at ECBC
Col. Tom Saltysiak. Credit: ECBC The U.S. Army’s principal research and development center for chemical and biological defense technology, Edgewood ...
Zika Rapid Test Named ‘Best of What’s New’ by Popular Science
A black cartridge containing a paper-based diagnostic for detecting the Zika virus is held up by a researcher at Harvard’s ...
CDC Announces New Director of Select Agent Division
Researcher working in a high-containment laboratory at USAMRIID. Following high-profile laboratory incidents involving select agents and toxins that occurred at ...
WHO Announces Head of New Health Emergencies Programme
Dr. Peter Salama (center) during his tenure as UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia. Credit: UNICEF The World Health Organization (WHO) this ...
USAMRIID Receives Tech Transfer Award for ZMapp Contributions
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) this week recognized scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of ...
Oleg Gang Named a Battelle ‘Inventor of the Year’
Oleg Gang, a physicist developing a novel strategy using DNA to guide the self-assembly of nanoparticles at the U.S. Department ...
Human Vaccines Project Names Koff as President and CEO
The Human Vaccines Project has named Dr. Wayne C. Koff, Ph.D. as its first President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). ...
Food Safety: PulseNet’s 20-Year History of Saving Lives
A national network of public health laboratories prevents an estimated 270,000 cases of food poisoning and saves half a billion ...
U.S. Army’s 20th CBRNE Commander Speaks at NCT CBRNe Europe
Brig. Gen. William E. King IV, commander, 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, spoke at Non-Conventional Threat CBRNe ...
2016 Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity
The UPMC Center for Health Security recently announced the selection of its 2016 Fellows in the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity ...
Sandia Recognized for Decontamination Technology Transfer
Sandia National Laboratories has won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2016 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for efforts including ...
Katie Hardin Receives Richardson Award for Contributions in CBRNE Defense
Battelle research scientist Katie (DeMers) Hardin has been named the 2015 recipient of the Dr. Billy Richardson Young NBC Researcher ...
NMRC-Asia Acting CO Offically Assumes Command
Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) Commanding Officer, Capt. Jacqueline D. Rychnovsky, recently pinned Capt. Marshall Monteville with the pin worn ...
Perspectives: A U.S. Navy Microbiologist in Egypt
Lt. Nathaniel Christy, a U.S. Navy microbiologist, gives an insider’s perspective on working at NAMRU-3 in Cairo. Sabah Alkhyr! As ...
Gemini Handheld Chemical Analyzer Wins R&D 100 Award
Thermo Scientific’s Gemini handheld chemical analyzer has been selected by R&D Magazine to be among the year’s top 100 innovative ...
Parker Appointed to DHS Science and Technology Advisory Committee
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson recently announced the appointment of Gerald W. Parker, D.V.M., Ph.D., along with 27 other ...
OPCW-The Hague Award Recipient Announced
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons this week announced Dr. Alastair Hay of the United Kingdom and Dr. ...
