| New England Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases |
| Region I: CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT |
| Principal Investigator |
Dennis Kasper, M.D. |
| Lead Institution |
Harvard Medical School |
| Address |
25 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA 02115 |
| Telephone |
(617) 432-5506 |
| Research Projects |
- Herpes virus vectors for antigen delivery
- Discovery of small molecules to block fusion by envelope proteins of Dengue and Ebola viruses
- Mediators and inhibitors of immunity toYersinia pestis
- Mechanisms of Yersinia pathogenesis
- Protein capsular matrix vaccines
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- Development of a conjugate vaccine for the prevention of tularemia
- Multiple approaches to blocking toxin action
- Innate immunity to hemorrhagic fever viruses
- Detection of Anthrax infection by magnetic reporting of molecular sensors
- Novel Anthrax vaccine targeted to dendritic cells
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Core Research
Facilities |
- Microbiology and Animal Resources Core
- Proteomics Core
- Clinical Studies Core
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- Biomolecule Production Core
- National Screening Laboratory for the RCE's (NRSB)
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| Member Institutions |
- Boston Medical Center
- Boston University School of Medicine
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Brown University
- CBR Institute for Biomedical Research
- Dartmouth Medical School
- Harvard Medical School
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- Massachusetts General Hospital
- New England Regional Primate Research Center
- University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
- University of Massachusetts Medical Center
- Tufts University School of Medicine
- Yale University School of Medicine
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