| Northwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research |
| Region X: AK, ID, OR, WA |
| Principal Investigator |
Samuel Miller, M.D. |
| Lead Institution |
University of Washington at Seattle |
| Address |
NWRCE
University of Washington
Box 357730
Seattle, WA 98195-7710
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| Research Projects |
- Variation in human innate immunity
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Virulence factors in the airway
- Development and assessment of novel biodefense vaccine technologies
- Bacterial lipopolysaccharide structure
- Bacterial essential and virulence genes
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- Bacterial diversity
- Bacterial proteome
- Innate immunity to pneumonic plague
- Animal models to study bubonic plague lymphadenitis
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Core Research
Facilities |
- Data Integration and Bioinformatics Core
- Microarray Analysis Core
- DNA Sequencing Core
- Training and Education Core
- Mass Spectrometry
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- Pulmonary Infection and Inflammation Core
- Yersinia pestis Biology Core
- Nonhuman Primate Studies Core
- Bacterial Strains Core
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| Member Institutions |
- University of Washington
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Institute for Systems Biology
- University of Idaho
- NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories
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- University of Oregon
- Montana State University
- University of Alaska at Fairbanks
- Harborview Medical Center
- VA Puget Sound Health Care System
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