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Zika virus pilot (update)

We have now received several hundred de-identified clinical samples from the Dominican Republic and Colombia. Unfortunately, they all have extremely low viral lows (Ct values > 38 in the few that are positive), so we’re continuing our technology development. We are following a couple of different strategies: (more…)
July 21, 2016
Publications

Roots, Not Parachutes

Infectious disease outbreaks continue to pose challenges to global health and security, prompting reactive countermeasures. Recently, severe outbreaks of Ebola and Zika virus were designated by the World Health Organization as “Public Health Emergencies of International Concern.” Other emerging viral pathogens have warranted similar attention, including virus outbreaks from Lassa, Chikungunya, avian influenza, Nipah, SARS, and MERS. (more…)
June 30, 2016
Data

Zika virus pilot

We recently received plasma samples from Zika virus (ZIKV) patients in Colombia. We performed QC on the samples and unfortunately very few had detectable levels of ZIKV by qPCR. We extracted RNA from two of these patient samples (Z184 and Z186), as well as a positive control (seed stock of the Malaysian strain P6-740 passaged once on BHK-21 cells) kindly…
April 5, 2016
News

Feature in Politiken

The leading Danish newspaper Politiken had a feature on our work in the September 20th 2015 Sunday section. The article discusses our past and ongoing work with Lassa and Ebola. The full feature describes how we have investigated both Lassa and Ebola virus evolution based on our most recent papers in Cell and Science. (more…)
September 20, 2015
Publications

Lassa paper on the front page of Cell

In a large multi-disciplinary collaboration between partners in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, USA, and Europe, we have published our first study on Lassa virus evolution. The paper - which appears on the front page of the August issue of Cell - is the result of seven years of work on Lassa fever across West Africa. (more…)
August 13, 2015
News

Background story in Wired

Erika Check Hayden - who is a frequent contributor to Nature News and others - just published an article in Wired Magazine describing some of the work we do as part of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium. The article is focused on our work with Ebola survivors and outlines our research aimed at find new and better treatments for Ebola.  (more…)
June 30, 2015
Publications

Ebola paper out in Cell

In a large collaboration between the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, Kenema Government Hospital, Harvard University, Broad Institute, Tulane University, Edinburgh University, the CDC, USAMRIID, and others we have just published a paper in Cell detailing the epidemiology, transmission, and evolution of Ebola virus over seven months in Sierra Leone.  (more…)
June 18, 2015
News

Come join the lab!

The Andersen Lab is officially opening at Scripps Research in May 2015. We're looking for people to come join us and are especially interested in postdocs and staff scientists with backgrounds in computational biology and/or experimental biology. (more…)
March 18, 2015