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Funding from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will Expand Biomonitoring Efforts to Identify Harmful Chemicals in New Yorkers Click above to read the press release and below to learn more about the programs.

Beverly Rauch, Deputy Director of the Division of Laboratory Quality Certification and Director of the Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program (CLEP) was a guest on LabMind, an ARUP Laboratories’ education department podcast.  Beverly…

Dr. Michael Perry joined the Wadsworth Center in 2009 as a Research Scientist in the Biodefense Laboratory. He transitioned to the Laboratory Supervisor in 2014, the Associate Director in 2021, and finally to the Laboratory Director in 2024.Dr.…

​Read about infectious disease fellow Majie Foster and how her "sense of service crossed from the military to the laboratory."

Center Will Be a Major Contributor to Federal Influenza SurveillanceSee the New York State Department of Health Press Release

Five-Year Contract Enables Department to Advance Understanding of the Bacterium Causing Lyme DiseaseRead the New York State Department of Health press release.

As a Special Projects Development Scientist at the Advanced Genomic Technologies Cluster (AGTC), I develop NGS-based solutions within AGTC and collaborate with principal investigators to design and implement innovative sequencing methodologies that…

Meeting LocationsNYS DOH, Wadsworth Center, Biggs Laboratory, Sturman Conference Room, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NYNYS DOH, Metropolitan Area Regional Office, Conference Room 4A-B, 90 Church Street, New York, NYSchedule11:00   …

The Immunology Core is responsible for assisting users in flow cytometry panel development, sample acquisition, sorting, and data analysis. Dr. Jennifer Yates is a classically trained immunologist with extensive experience in using flow cytometry as…

 Thomas Bartlett (Principal Investigator) did his PhD in Zemer Gitai’s lab at Princeton and his postdoctoral studies with Thomas Bernhardt and David Rudner at Harvard Medical School. He enjoys designing screens to discover proteins that…

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The ObstacleImagine the 35th Waste-Management and Education Research Conference (WERC), a national engineering competition, is rapidly approaching. Your team, Mycosorb Environmental, is using fungi to absorb metals from mining waters, but…

Ms. Beverly Rauch, Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program (CLEP) Director at the NYS DOH’s Wadsworth Center, delivered a featured presentation at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Blood Banks Association of New York (BBANYS). CLEP is responsible…

Dr. Susan Madison-Antenucci, Chief of Bloodborne & Parasitic Diseases at the Wadsworth Center, spoke at the New York Medical College symposium titled “Vector borne Infections in the Hudson Valley – There’s More Than Just Lyme Out There.”The goal…

The Wadsworth Center Institutional Biosafety Committee MissionThe Wadsworth Center's Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) provides local review and oversight of research that utilizes recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules. The IBC…

Raman spectroscopy, a widely used technique for qualitative chemical analysis, has taken a significant step forward into the realm of quantitative applications thanks to a new method co-developed by Dr. George Donati of the Wadsworth Center’s…

 Members of the Bacteriology and Parasitology Laboratories participated in “Wellness Day” at Tesago Elementary School in Clifton Park, engaging students in an exciting and educational public health experience. The outreach team included Ashley…

A recent case from New York’s Newborn Screening Program (NBSP) highlights the essential partnership between state and county health departments in ensuring timely diagnosis and treatment for newborns with rare but serious conditions.A baby screened…

The global challenge of antibiotic resistance continues to drive innovative research into bacterial growth and division. Dr. Thomas Bartlett, a newly appointed principal investigator in the Division of Genetics at the Wadsworth Center, chaired the…

Read more about the Wadsworth Center's academic engagement in the Summer 2025 issue of the Association of Public Health Laboratories' Lab Matters.