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Launch of outbreak.info variant tracking

The Center for Viral Systems Biology (CViSB) at Scripps Research is tracking the prevalence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2—the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic—and making this information publicly available to drive global research efforts. The daily situation reports appear on Outbreak.info, a website created by the same team in early 2020, shortly after the emergence of COVID-19. The new reports add to the website’s…
February 17, 2021
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New NIAID-funded center established

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the urgent need to protect the world from microbial threats, whenever and wherever they emerge. With a new $8.9 million grant, our lab is partnering with peers in the United States and West Africa, a region of the world where infectious diseases are a high burden on public health. (more…)
August 27, 2020
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New CViSB collaboration funded

A $1.3 million dollar grant supplement awarded to our CViSB center will fund a new collaboration with Lauren Gardner at Johns Hopkins University and Marc Suchard at UCLA to analyze the spread and evolution of SARS-CoV-2. CViSB's renowned data scientists will design the computational models and visualization software necessary to combine layers of data into one larger picture to explore…
June 11, 2020
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CViSB established

Scripps Research scientists receive $15 million to study viral outbreak survivors. With a new $15 million grant, scientists at Scripps Research are gearing up for an in-depth study of survivors of viral outbreaks. The grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will support the efforts of the Scripps Research-led Center for Viral Systems…
February 15, 2018
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