Nonhuman Primate Core

Computational Biology Core

Small Animal Core

BSL4 Core

Pathogenesis Expression Core

Law, Policy and Ethics

Trans-Center Cores

National Small Molecule Screening Laboratory

RCE Communications

Nonhuman Primate Aerobiology Core

Passive immunotherapeutics for                             Select Agents

Small Animal Core

Collaborating Institution: University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM

Director: C. Rick Lyons, M.D., Ph.D.

Description: The role of this core is to maintain murine models of anthrax, plague, tularemia, and cowpox, as well as some of the hemorrhagic fever viruses. The core serves several functions:

1) It provides standardized infection models for the WRCE as well as other national RCEs for testing new therapeutic and preventative interventions, and is available to investigators within our region as well as to investigators outside of our region on a contractual basis.

2) The core develops new in vivo imaging techniques that are used to assist in understanding host–pathogen interactions as well as improve high-throughput screening of therapeutics.

3) The core develops new models of biothreat agent diseases in different species.