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Global Virus Network (GVN)
Adds Four Preeminent Academic
Institutions To Strengthen Global
Collaboration In Viral Research
And Response To Pandemics
The Global Virus Network (GVN),
comprising foremost experts around
the world in every class of virus
causing disease in humans and some
animals, today announced the addition of
three new Centers of Excellence including
the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), part of
the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Radboud
University Medical Center in the Netherlands
and the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public
Health in the United States of America (USA),
and one Affiliate, the University of the West
Indies at St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago
through GVN’s Center of Excellence in HIV
and HCV Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory
in the Center for Integrated Global Biomedical
Sciences, at the University at Buffalo, The
State University of New York (SUNY), USA.
The latest additions bolster GVN to 61 Centers
of Excellence, with 11 Affiliates in 34 nations.
The GVN is a global authority and resource
for the identification and investigation,
interpretation and explanation, control and
suppression, of viral diseases posing threats
to mankind.
“We look forward to working with each of
these esteemed new members to combat
the current pandemic emergency and plan
for, and mitigate, future outbreaks,” said Dr.
Christian Bréchot, President of the GVN and
Associate Vice President for International
Partnerships and Innovation, Professor,
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of
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