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Wadsworth Center
New York State Department of Health
Empire State Plaza, C345
Albany, NY 12237

The Extramural Grants Administration Program works to further the efforts of the Spinal Cord Injury Research Board (SCIRB). Each year, approximately 1,100 New York residents suffer traumatic spinal cord injuries joining the nearly 288,000 people living in the United States with paralysis. SCIRB’s mission, since 1998, has been to support neurological spinal cord injury scientific research projects from leading researchers within New York State to find a cure for spinal cord injuries.

The Wadsworth Center provides resources such as reagents, strains, software, etc. that are made available to the scientific community, either free or for a nominal fee.  

Keith M. Derbyshire, PhD

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Associate Director for Research and Technology
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany

Erin C. Davis

The primary objectives of the Office of Research & Technology are to support the Wadsworth Center’s exceptionally large breadth of interests and activities in its pursuit of improving public health.  The office offers a range of services to facilitate collaborations among investigative programs and to increase extramural research funding.

The office provides technical, organizational and administrative support for grant applications by investigators with a special emphasis on multi-investigator and Center-wide efforts.

Janice D. Pata, PhD

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Director, Division of Scientific Cores

Navjot (Vimi) Singh, PhD

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Deputy Director, Division of Scientific Cores

The Wadsworth Center maintains extensive scientific core facilities in support of its investigators and their collaborators. These facilities provide expertise and access to specialized equipment and services, advise investigators and help them in using the equipment, and train junior researchers in the latest technologies. Each core is headed by a scientist expert in the core’s particular instrumentation and techniques. Some also provide hands-on training for students and postdocs.

Kirsten St. George, PhD

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Meghan Fuschino, MS

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Associate Director
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David Axelrod Institute
Virology Laboratory
Wadsworth Center
New York State Dept. of Health
120 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, NY 12208

Welcome to the website pages of the NYSDOH Wadsworth Center’s Laboratory of Viral Disease (LVD). In the following pages you will find many interesting and helpful resources. While navigating through them, you can explore Virology news, current test menus and ordering information, as well as recent publications and presentations by LVD staff.  Additionally, there are descriptions of the various laboratory sections within the LVD and contact details should you require more information. Thank you for your interest.

April D. Davis, DVM, PhD

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Rabies Laboratory

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Griffin Laboratory, NYS Department of Health
5668 State Farm Road
Slingerlands, NY 12159
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The Rabies Laboratory, located at the Wadsworth Center’s Griffin Laboratory in Guilderland, provides New York State with rabies-related laboratory services. Testing performed by the laboratory includes:

  • Animal specimen testing
  • Human serology testing
  • Ante- and post-mortem testing

Additional studies involve:

Susan Madison-Antenucci, PhD

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Parasitology Laboratory

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Parasitology Laboratory

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David Axelrod Institute, Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health
120 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, NY 12208
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The Wadsworth Center Parasitology Laboratory is the New York State public health reference laboratory for parasitic infections. Laboratory responsibilities include:

  • Clinical diagnosis utilizing various diagnostic methods
  • Development of molecular assays for pathogenic parasite detection

Scientists in the Parasitology Laboratory also pursue research questions while collaborating with colleagues both inside the NYSDOH and with outside universities and private laboratories.

Sudha Chaturvedi, PhD

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Mycology Laboratory

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David Axelrod Institute, Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health
120 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, NY 12208
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The Mycology Laboratory serves as a comprehensive reference facility for all NYSDOH licensed clinical laboratories including: hospitals, academic medical centers, county health departments and commercial laboratories.

The laboratory houses a fungal culture collection repository, an outstanding resource for assay development, distribution and sale.

Vincent Escuyer, PhD

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Director
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Donna Kohlerschmidt

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Mycobacteriology Laboratory

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David Axelrod Institute, Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health
120 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, NY 12208
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Around the world, tuberculosis is responsible for over one million deaths per year. The recent emergence of multi- and extensively drug resistant strains (MDR and XDR, respectively) represents a threat to public health worldwide, particularly when associated with HIV.