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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
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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
International collaboration strengthens global disease surveillance News

International collaboration strengthens global disease surveillance

Increasingly researchers have used wastewater surveillance as an effective tool to find out what viruses and which strains of viruses—for example, SARS-CoV-2 variants—are circulating within a community. Providing real-time insights into which diseases might be on the rise helps public health officials to detect and contain outbreaks before they become global pandemics. In late Spring 2023, Scripps Research postdoctoral associates…
August 11, 2023