Global Virus Network Adds Six Centers of Excellence and New Affiliate Across Four Continents

Summary:

The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of medical virologists representing more than 100 Centers of Excellence and Affiliates in over 40 countries, has announced six new Centers of Excellence and one Affiliate across Austria, Brazil, China, India, Panama, Switzerland and the United States. Among them is the Institute of Virology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, directed by Prof. Gisa Gerold, which joins as a Center of Excellence with expertise in arboviruses and respiratory viruses. This includes chikungunya vaccine research, antibody responses after vaccination and infection, and RSV epidemiology.

The other new members are Feevale University (Brazil), the National Institute of Pathogen Biology in Beijing (China), INDICASAT-AIP (Panama), the Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases (Switzerland) and Cornell University (USA). The Institute of Life Sciences (India) joins as an Affiliate. Prof. Gerold said that GVN will help strengthen the rapid communication between scientists that is critical during outbreaks.