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Governor Cuomo Announces Another Major Milestone in Life Sciences Initiative
Merck's ILÚM Health Solutions Will Invest up to $48 Million and Create up to 115 New Jobs Over Five Years
Dr. Joe Orsini Receives Legacy of Hope Award
In commemoration of the organization’s twentieth anniversary, the Hunter’s Hope Foundation presented Wadsworth Center’s Dr. Orsini and Duke University School of Medicine’s Dr. Kurtzberg with the Legacy of Hope Award. Co-…
Fighting Antibiotic Resistance with Printing Technology
Wadsworth Center's Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Regional Laboratory was chosen by CDC as one of four labs in the AR Lab Network to serve as a pilot site, "printing" with new drugs rather than ink, in order to find the most effective…
Wadsworth Center’s TB Lab Launches New Testing Algorithm Based Upon Years of Development and Evaluation
Magnitude of Disease Impact
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) is a group of closely related and very important pathogens, infecting a quarter of the world’s population; New York State ranks 3rd in the nation for highest number of…
Souvenirs: What did you bring home from your last trip to the hospital?
The stuff we carry around says a lot about us. If I were to dump my purse right now, you'd find a shell from my last trip to the ocean, a garnet from a hike up north and a penny pressed from an amusement park. Bacteria tell us a lot about…
Cover Story - Colorful Crustacean
This colorful crustacean comes to us as part of a larger research investigation into environmental exposures among the Upstate New York Chinese community. The NIH-funded, home-based study looked at some unique cultural foods, personal care products…
Longer seasons and higher virus levels in 2018 for some pathogens carried by mosquitoes
Each year, Wadsworth Center’s Arbovirology Laboratory undertakes the seasonal surveillance of mosquitoes for arboviral pathogens. Surveillance is important for control of vector-borne viruses. First, it tells us which mosquito species are…
Changes to the New York State Newborn Screening Program’s HIV Algorithm
Newborn screening specimens are now tested for exposure to HIV using a new first-tier HIV screening immunoassay and a new second-tier HIV-1 / HIV-2 supplemental immunoassay.
This new assay has several benefits including the ability to identify…
Australia to Albany and Back
On the heels of receiving the 2017 Diagnostic Virology Award, an international career achievement award, Dr. Kirsten St. George, Chief of the Laboratory of Viral Diseases, was presented with the Alumni Award from the University of South Australia (…
New Wadsworth Lab in the City of Albany
As announced in the Executive Budget Briefing Book
The Budget supports a $750 million State commitment for construction of a new, world‐class, state‐of‐the‐art public health laboratory to replace the Wadsworth Center’s aging facilities.…
Wadsworth Center's TB Laboratory Featured in CAP TODAY
Wadsworth Center scientists from the Mycobacteriology and Bacteriology Laboratories, the Bioinformatics and Statistics Core, and the Sequencing Core, supported, developed and validated a test based on whole genome sequencing that provides…
Dr. Kramer Garners International Award for Career Contributions in Arbovirology
Every three years, the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) bestows the Richard M. Taylor Award on an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of arbovirology throughout his or her career. …
Dr. Keith Derbyshire Named AAAS Fellow
Dr. Derbyshire joins the ranks of distinguished scientists recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1874 - from Thomas Edison and Linus Pauling, to four of the 2018 Nobel Prize laureates.
AAAS recognized…
Revised Newborn Screening Regulation
SubPart 69-1 Newborn Screening for Phenylketonuria and Other Diseases
New Wadsworth Center Fellowship Program
The application period is closed. Check back Spring 2020.
About the Wadsworth Center Fellowship Program
The mission of the Wadsworth Center Fellowship Program is to provide scientists with broad experience in laboratory science and…
Greg Farrell Earns CDC Lifetime Achievement Award
Virology Laboratory staff member Greg Farrell is the inaugural recipient of the National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) Lifetime Achievement Award.
Unsolicited. Inaugural. Lifetime Achievement. Weighty words.
An…
Wadsworth Center Unveils Statue of Ignaz Semmelweis
Wadsworth Center Director Dr. Jill Taylor welcomed to the ceremony honored guests and speakers including Dr. Howard Zucker, New York State Health Commissioner; H.E. Ambassador István Pásztor, Consul General, New York; and Dr. Jonathan Jakus,…
Cystic Fibrosis Algorithm Changes
As of July 1, 2019, the changes outlined in the Letter to Healthcare Providers are effective.
Funding Opportunity: Screening for Candida auris at point-of-care
New questions and answers added September 27, 2019!
The Wadsworth Center and Health Research Inc. are requesting applications from up to three investigators/inventors/companies to work closely with the Wadsworth Center to develop and…
Now Available - Resources Explaining February 2019 Regulation Changes
The first in a series of six webinars and associated power point presentations is available. Topics include: Specimen collection, shipping, tracking and resulting Babies in the NICU Requests for repeats Referrals to specialty care…