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Two awards from the Gates Foundation to advance global disease surveillance Gates grantsPress Releases

Two awards from the Gates Foundation to advance global disease surveillance

Detecting infectious disease threats early and responding quickly can dramatically alter the course of an infectious outbreak. Technologies such as wastewater surveillance are transforming how public health officials identify emerging pathogens, monitor community transmission and direct resources where they're needed most. Scripps Research has been at the forefront of this effort, developing computational and laboratory tools that have helped make…
July 1, 2026
Joint Response to GISAID andersen-lab-logoOther

Joint Response to GISAID

On 20 January 2026, GISAID published a statement (archived link) titled “Facts surrounding data-related complaints”, citing four examples to justify recent termination on access to its data feeds. Although presented as matters involving “Individual”(s), each of these examples refer to open-source platforms or national public health responses, in which individuals representing our respective teams made agreements with GISAID to serve…
February 20, 2026
Welcome 2025 Summer Interns 2025 AndersenLab InternsTraining

Welcome 2025 Summer Interns

Join us in welcoming five Scripps Research Translational Institute Student Research Internship Program summer interns to the Andersen Lab! These aspiring scientists, selected from a large pool of candidates across the country, are eager to learn from renowned researchers at Scripps Research. Each intern is closely collaborating with a mentor to gain hands-on experience in applying computational methods to study…
June 13, 2025
Data analytics hub for CDC-funded pandemic preparedness PREVENTPress Releases

Data analytics hub for CDC-funded pandemic preparedness

Under the leadership of UC San Diego, Scripps Research is partnering with several institutions to bolster national preparedness for respiratory viruses. UC San Diego (the primary award recipient) has been awarded a $5.7 million cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Scripps Research and its partners will join the CDC’s Community and Household Acute Respiratory Illness…
January 8, 2025
Q&A with Global Health Researcher Jyothi Purushotham JyothiOtherTraining

Q&A with Global Health Researcher Jyothi Purushotham

Emerging infectious diseases pose a persistent global health threat, with the potential to cause widespread morbidity, mortality, and significant social and economic disruptions. Postdoctoral researcher Jyothi Purushotham is working to understand how pathogens interact with their hosts, which is essential for deciphering the mechanisms that drive infection, transmission, disease progression and pathogen evolution. These insights can guide the development of…
December 16, 2024
Preliminary Report on H5N1 in Cattle H5N1 treeNarrativeNews

Preliminary Report on H5N1 in Cattle

During the winter of 2020-2021, a new genotype of highly-pathogenic (HP) H5N1 avian influenza A virus emerged in Europe, comprising a reassortant between the epizootic HP clade 2.3.4.4b H5N8 and local low pathogenicity wildfowl strains. This new genotype caused record levels of infections in farmed poultry throughout Europe and quickly traveled, via waterfowl flyways, into North America, Africa and East…
May 3, 2024
SEARCH Paper out in Cell Cell abstractPublications

SEARCH Paper out in Cell

Elucidating human contact networks could help predict and prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and future pandemic threats. A new study from Scripps Research scientists and collaborators points to which public health protocols worked to mitigate the spread of COVID-19—and which ones didn’t. In the study, published online in Cell on December 14, 2023, the Scripps Research-led team of scientists investigated the efficacy…
December 14, 2023
Gates support for wastewater surveillance Wastewater surveillance projectPress Releases

Gates support for wastewater surveillance

Wastewater surveillance is a cost-effective, convenient tool for tracking harmful pathogens circulating through the population, but technology and infrastructure hurdles have limited its widespread use. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Scripps Research a $1.5 million grant to overcome these barriers, expand wastewater surveillance tracking, and help mitigate infectious disease threats around the globe. The two-year award, which…
August 30, 2023