Main Body
Virus Reference and Surveillance Laboratory (VRSL)
Clinical Virology Program
Contact Information
Lab Director: Robert D. Boromisa, PhD.
Telephone: (518) 474-4177
Telephone: (518) 474-4177
"We must remain devoted to the canons of science that are so much a part of the practice of medicine and the practice of the allied arts. To do otherwise would be to build public policy on quicksand."
David Axelrod, M.D.
New York State Health Commissioner 1979-1991
Wadsworth Center, the most comprehensive state health laboratory in the country, is dedicated to science in the pursuit of health. It fulfills its mission of protecting and promoting the health of New Yorkers through analysis, research and education.
Research Projects
Trials and Studies
- Influenza genome sequencing project, evolution and diversity in influenza
- Detection of respiratory viruses in household transmission study
- Analysis of fatal adenovirus cases
Assays Under Development
- Molecular assays for WuKi viruses
- Multiplex influenza A and B real-time RT-PCR
- Genotypic and phenotypic assays for antiviral susceptibility in influenza and herpes simplex viruses
