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Internal Medicine at the USF Health Morsani
College of Medicine.
“These new Centers and Affiliate offer not just
deeper global reach, but encompass some
of the world’s most cutting-edge science
and thought leadership,” said Dr. Robert
Gallo, GVN co-founder and international
scientific advisor, who is also The Homer &
Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor
in Medicine and Director of the Institute of
Human Virology (IHV) at the University of
Maryland School of Medicine.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Chinese
Academy of Sciences, offers, among other
world-leading expertise, valuable resources
in bat viruses and coronaviruses and will be
an important Center for studying response to
emerging viral diseases.
“I support increasing global collaborations
and transparency in science, particularly
related to this current pandemic crisis,”
said Dr. Zhengli Shi, Professor at WIV and
director of GVN’s new Center in China. “In
addition to sharing our coronavirus research
and any new breakthroughs with my fellow
colleagues at the GVN, I am also looking
forward to sharing my experience in Africa,
particularly the National Museums of Kenya
and the Kenya Wildlife Service, regarding
our surveillance studies in bats, rodents and
camels in East Africa.”
Radboud University Medical Center in the
Netherlands is renowned for conducting
research in innate immunity, non-specific
vaccines, targeting leukocytes, and
metabolic differentiation, especially against
coronaviruses.
“I am looking forward to increasing my
collaborations with the GVN,” said Dr.
Mihai Netea, a GVN Task Force member
who will direct the new Center, and who
also heads the division of Experimental
Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,
Radboud University Medical Center in the
Netherlands. “I am pleased that our research
in understanding the factors influencing
variability of human immune responses,
the biology of sepsis and immunoparalysis
in bacterial and fungal infections, and the
study of the memory traits of innate immunity
is already helping to shape GVN’s thoughtleadership
on utilizing innate immunity to
mitigate our current pandemic and future
ones.”
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