An Introduction to Research Cores at NEIDL

Core facilities that will contribute to the availability of emerging infectious diseases research for the institution, the region and the nation.

A major portion of the NEIDL project plan centers on providing comprehensive core research facilities that will enable basic, translational and clinical research and the development of products related to the emerging infectious diseases agenda. As a national resource, these core research facilities must anticipate the research needs of investigators over at least a 20 year time period and must “add value” to existing and planned research facilities. To meet these needs we propose flexible core facilities that will be devoted to a comprehensive array of research methodologies that contribute to the entire product development continuum from basic science to clinical research. They include facilities for basic research to identify mechanisms of pathogenesis and potential targets for new diagnostics, vaccines, biologicals, and therapeutics to translational research where studies will be focused on identifying molecules/reagents/leads that might be useful as diagnostics, immunogens, biologicals or therapeutics to in vivo studies in small animals with robust capacity for studies in non-human primates to clinical studies in human volunteers. Furthermore we strongly emphasize those core facilities that will be housed in high containment since these are the research resources that are unavailable and most urgently needed. These sections of the website contains brief descriptions of some of the planned research core facilities for the NEIDL.