USAMRIID Scientists Continue Critical Work Against Select Agents While Aiding Pandemic Response
Since 1969, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Md., has been using science ...
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Novel Therapy for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) scientists are working as part of an international consortium have developed ...
Thin Film Freezing Shows Efficacy for Biodefense Countermeasures Against Alphaviruses and Filoviruses
TFF Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative drug products based on its patented thin-film ...
Smiths Detection’s BioFlash Shown to Detect Airborne COVID-19
Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, today reports that its BioFlash® Biological Identifier is capable of ...
DoD Researchers Collaborate on Universal Antibody Test for COVID-19
Researchers from the U.S. Army Futures Command, in collaboration with Houston Methodist, Pennsylvania State University, and UT Austin, tested alternative ...
UT Austin Spearheads Scalable, ELISA Antibody Test for SARS-CoV-2
In collaboration with UT Austin, Penn State University and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), study ...
USAMRIID Scientists Engineer First Lethal Mouse Model for COVID-19
Small animal models mirroring human disease are essential for advancing vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments to combat emerging pathogens. Army scientists ...
Health Security Today – 1 April 2020
FEATURED FDA, NIH, Veteran Affairs Partner with America Makes for 3D Printing Innovations During Pandemic Response Through this collaboration, the ...
USAMRIID Gears Up to Fight COVID-19
In February, the CDC sent the Army about 10 drops of blood from one of the first Covid-19 patients, a ...
USAMRIID Resumes Full Operations Following Federal Select Agent Program Reinstatement
Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases continue to work on medical countermeasures for the novel ...
Why is the Defense Department Withholding Funding for USAMRIID and CCDC Chemical Biological Center?
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin as well as Congressmen David Trone, Dutch Ruppersberger, Jamie Raskin, and ...
First-Ever Therapeutic Antibody Cocktail for Sudan Virus Shows Promise in Animal Studies
Army scientists working with partners from industry and academia have developed an experimental treatment that protects animals from Sudan virus, ...
CDC Approves Partial Resumption of USAMRIID Select Agent Research
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) will resume limited research, following a successful recent inspection by ...
USAMRIID Study Leads to Approval of New Smallpox Vaccine
A new vaccine approved in the U.S. on Sept. 24 prevents both smallpox and the related disease monkeypox in adults. ...
Cutting Edge Chemical and Biological Defense Science: Hot Topics at CBD S&T 2019
In a few short weeks, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) will host the 2019 Chemical and Biological Defense Science ...
Biosafety Levels in Laboratories – What is the Difference?
In July 2019, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) ceased research operations after failing to ...
DoD Inspector General to Reevaluate Select Agent Facilities, Biosafety Oversight
The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General (DoD OIG) is conducting a Follow-Up Evaluation of DoD Biological Select ...
How Does USAMRIID Shut Down Impact Nation’s Bioterrorism Laboratory Response Network?
The Laboratory Response Network (LRN) is a collaborative federal effort run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Lawmakers Seek Answers on USAMRIID Shutdown, BioDetection 21 Capabilities
A weekly selection of news and papers we're reading at Global Biodefense: USAMRIID shutdown fallout; emerging technology risk assessment tools; ...
Research Halted at USAMRIID Over Biosafety Issues
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the only Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in the Department of ...
