Laboratory of Viral Diseases
Contact Information
Laboratory Chief:
Kirsten St. George M.App.Sc., Ph.D.
(518) 474 4177
kxs16@health.state.ny.us
http://www.wadsworth.org/resnres/bios/stgeorge.shtml
The Laboratory of Viral Diseases (LVD) encompasses a diverse service and research program for viral diseases of public health importance. Efforts include those for surveillance, outbreak investigation, special disease and emerging pathogen detection, reference testing, pandemic preparedness and response, the development and investigation of new testing methodologies, and the investigation of viral infections and their associated pathogenesis and disease.
As part of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Wadsworth Center, the laboratories of the LVD are located at the David Axelrod Institute in Albany NY. The LVD works closely with both the Bureau of Communicable Diseases and the Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control Program at the New York State Department of Health, and collaborates on numerous projects with colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, other state and regional public health laboratories, university and other research facilities, and various industry partners.
Within this program are the following:
- Virus Reference and Surveillance Laboratory
- Calicivirus Laboratory
- Viral Encephalitis Laboratory
- Virology Proficiency Testing Laboratory
- Molecular Methods Development Group and
- Special Projects Team