Dr. Nicholas Mantis Awarded $9 Million Contract to Aid in Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease
Dr. Nicholas Mantis, of Wadsworth Center's Division of Infectious Diseases, was awarded a five-year, $9 million contract by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to study human antibody responses to the Lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi.
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Dr. Nicholas Mantis Awarded $9 Million Contract to Aid in Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease
A New Game Plan - Wadsworth Center’s Dr. Jon Paczkowski Awarded $1.8 Million NIH Grant to Study Regulation of Virulence Factors
​Current antibiotics work by interfering with bacterial growth, which is a fine game plan… until it stops working. More and more, bacteria are finding ways around this approach, resulting in a huge antibiotic resistance problem. Dr. Jon Paczkowski may just have come up with a new defensive strategy and recently received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate.
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A New Game Plan - Wadsworth Center’s Dr. Jon Paczkowski Awarded $1.8 Million NIH Grant to Study Regulation of Virulence Factors
Radical Solutions: Diagnosing and Even Predicting COVID-caused MIS-C
As we’ve seen repeatedly during the pandemic, it isn’t always easy to get our hands on everything we need, hmmm, cue the toilet paper, especially new things. This reality translates to addressing patients who have COVID today. By using tools we already have in labs across the country, we can capitalize on the technology, instruments and the know how to use them by using them in new ways.
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Radical Solutions: Diagnosing and Even Predicting COVID-caused MIS-C
Wadsworth Center Scientists Featured in Association of Public Health Laboratories' Lab Matters
Dr. St. George is quoted in the feature article beginning on page 5 and our own Infectious Disease Fellow Nora Cleary is featured on pg 19.
Nora has been selected for the Edith Hsiung Memorial prize for her abstract/presentation on Hep A whole genome sequencing. This is one of the two top travel awards from the American Society for Microbiology for a student, fellow, or technologist, presenting their work at the annual, international Clinical Virology Symposium, to be held this year in West Palm Beach.
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Wadsworth Center Scientists Featured in Association of Public Health Laboratories' Lab Matters
Under Construction…Permanently. 25 Years of Wadsworth Center’s Clinical Laboratory Information Management System (CLIMS)
Having spent a lot of time in our homes recently, most of us are probably contemplating a dream renovation. If that project requires several professionals - plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc., we might have second thoughts.
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Under Construction…Permanently. 25 Years of Wadsworth Center’s Clinical Laboratory Information Management System (CLIMS)
Detecting Antimicrobial Resistance in Biological Threat Agents
Read on page 26 of Association of Public Health Laboratories' Fall/Winter Lab Matters Issue about Wadsworth Center's Collaboration with CDC's Biodefense Research and Development Laboratory.
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Detecting Antimicrobial Resistance in Biological Threat Agents
Wadsworth Center’s Laboratory of Organic Analytical Chemistry Continues to Test Vaping Fluids Suspected of Causing Illness From New York State
In 2019, cases of a mysterious illness related to vaping, formally referred to as “e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury” (EVALI), were identified across the United States. A significant number of cases affected young New Yorkers. In association with NY Regional Poison Control Centers and medical facilities from around the state, Wadsworth Center’s Laboratory of Organic Analytical Chemistry analyzed vape fluid samples from suspected cases for cannabinoids, pesticides, synthetic cannabinoids, opioids, illicit drugs, an
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Wadsworth Center’s Laboratory of Organic Analytical Chemistry Continues to Test Vaping Fluids Suspected of Causing Illness From New York State
Wadsworth Center Leads the Way in Number of NYS COVID Variants Sequenced
SARS-CoV-2, like all viruses, is constantly creating new variants through mutation of its RNA genome. Most mutations are of little or no consequence. However, every once in a while, a new mutation can increase transmissibility, increase disease severity, cause the virus to escape the body’s immune response, or do any combination of these.
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Wadsworth Center Leads the Way in Number of NYS COVID Variants Sequenced
Wadsworth Center, at the forefront of the fight against tuberculosis in NYS and globally, celebrates World TB Day 2021
The World Health Organization estimates that almost 4,000 people lose their lives to TB and close to 28,000 people contract TB every day. Currently, 13 million people in the United States live with latent (hidden) TB infection.
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Wadsworth Center, at the forefront of the fight against tuberculosis in NYS and globally, celebrates World TB Day 2021
Wadsworth Center's Michael Perry Receives Two National Awards
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is pleased to announce the winners of its annual awards (page 32) for outstanding achievements in laboratory science, creative approaches t
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Wadsworth Center's Michael Perry Receives Two National Awards
Deciphering the sleep/wake cycle of ribosomes in mycobacteria
Infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB) in humans, are difficult to eradicate with antibiotics: a 6-month long multidrug regimen is necessary for the treatment of TB. The drug recalcitrance of TB infections has been associated with a specialized subpopulation of Mtb cells, that do not replicate or are very slow growing and whose metabolism is significantly decreased.
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Deciphering the sleep/wake cycle of ribosomes in mycobacteria
Seven Fellows, One Goal
Wadsworth Center has long been committed to providing the next generation of public health professionals with the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities.
More than 300 students have made Wadsworth Center their summer home over the course of nearly 30 years through the National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program.
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Seven Fellows, One Goal
Dr. Kimberlee Musser Appointed Director of Clinical Testing for Wadsworth Center’s David Axelrod Institute
Wadsworth Center’s David Axelrod Institute, and all of Wadsworth Center for that matter, may be known to many as a place for research and education. But there’s a lot of clinical testing that goes on here too. You could even say the work performed here impacts every native New Yorker - from screening every baby born in the state, to testing for the measles, the flu, Legionella, Zika, C. auris, Ebola and much, much more. It all happens here.
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Dr. Kimberlee Musser Appointed Director of Clinical Testing for Wadsworth Center’s David Axelrod Institute
Dr. Christina Egan & Michael Perry Receive the 2019 North American Global 3Rs Award from AAALAC International and the IQ Consortium
This award recognizes those who effectively advance ethical science through significant, innovative contributions to the 3Rs of animal research - Refinement, Replacement and Reduction.
Up to four such awards are presented annually – one each from North America, Europe, the Pacific Rim, and countries outside these three geographic areas.
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Dr. Christina Egan & Michael Perry Receive the 2019 North American Global 3Rs Award from AAALAC International and the IQ Consortium
Bacterial FOMO
Wadsworth Center Welcomes Dr. Jon Paczkowski
Dr. Paczkowski received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2014 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Bassler Laboratory at Princeton University prior to joining the Wadsworth Center. Here he uses the model organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa to study microbial signal transduction and cell-cell communication.
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Bacterial FOMO
Funding Opportunity: Screening for Candida auris at point-of-care
New questions and answers added September 27, 2019!
The Wadsworth Center and Health Research Inc. are requesting applications from up to three investigators/inventors/companies to work closely with the Wadsworth Center to develop and optimize a point-of-care device that can detect the presence of Candida auris from a skin or nasal swab.
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Funding Opportunity: Screening for Candida auris at point-of-care
Nod to Wadsworth Center Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory
The Summer 2019 issue of the Association of Public Health Laboratories' (APHL) publication Lab Matters features an article recognizing the work of the Wadsworth Center's Antibiotic Resistance Lab Network (AR Lab Network) - Northeast Regional Lab.
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Nod to Wadsworth Center Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory
Wadsworth Center Unveils Statue of Ignaz Semmelweis
Wadsworth Center Director Dr. Jill Taylor welcomed to the ceremony honored guests and speakers including Dr. Howard Zucker, New York State Health Commissioner; H.E. Ambassador István Pásztor, Consul General, New York; and Dr. Jonathan Jakus, Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology Montefiore Nyack Hospital and US Representative of the Semmelweis Memorial Committee.
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Wadsworth Center Unveils Statue of Ignaz Semmelweis
Greg Farrell Earns CDC Lifetime Achievement Award
Virology Laboratory staff member Greg Farrell is the inaugural recipient of the National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) Lifetime Achievement Award.
Unsolicited. Inaugural. Lifetime Achievement. Weighty words.
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Greg Farrell Earns CDC Lifetime Achievement Award
New Wadsworth Center Fellowship Program
The application period is closed. Check back Spring 2020.
About the Wadsworth Center Fellowship Program
The mission of the Wadsworth Center Fellowship Program is to provide scientists with broad experience in laboratory science and research in infectious disease, genetics, environmental health or translational medicine. Fellows will gain broad experience at one of the nation’s premier public health laboratories, renowned for developing and utilizing high complexity testing using advanced technologies and state of the art equipment.
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New Wadsworth Center Fellowship Program