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Dr. Spencer Bruce, Director of the Bioinformatics Core at the Wadsworth Center, recently took part in the Bioinformatics Leadership Program, held June 23-27, 2025, at the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) headquarters in Bethesda,…

The Wadsworth Center, the public health laboratory of the New York State Department of Health, has been selected to serve as the central reference testing laboratory for a major international clinical trial aimed at preventing multidrug-resistant…

Dr. Joseph Orsini, Director of the Newborn Screening Program’s Biochemical Genetics Laboratory, represented the Wadsworth Center at the Hunter’s Hope Medical Symposium, held July 15-16, 2025, in Ellicottville, NY. He has attended this annual…

Drs. Pallavi Ghosh and Anil Ojha of the Wadsworth Center’s Division of Genetics have been awarded a highly competitive R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with colleagues at Central Michigan University…

Read the Association of Public Health Laboratories' blog and interview with Wadsworth Center's own Rabies Laboratory Director, Dr. April Davis.

The Laboratory of Viral Diseases hosted a two-day enterovirus molecular characterization workshop on July 28th and 29th. The training was sponsored by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and included scientists from state public…

On July 15, 2025, Wadsworth Center’s Nuclear Chemistry Laboratory (NCL), within the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, onboarded their third Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) fellow in the past three years.  Dr. Victoria…

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Training Grant (T32) titled “RNA Science and Technology in Health and Disease” was awarded to the University at Albany, State University of New York, for $1.8 million over the next five years to support seven…

The New York State (NYS) Newborn Screening Program (NBSP) became the first state in the nation to screen for sickle cell disease in 1975. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder, known also as hemoglobinopathy, that affects the shape and…

In the September 2025 issue of Clinical Microbiology Newsletter, a new three-part collaborative series, “Laboratory Diagnosis of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria,” was published with Wadsworth Center’s Dr. Kimberlee Musser as a coauthor.  …

The Environmental Laboratory Approval Program (ELAP) within the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, has regulatory oversight of laboratories testing environmental samples collected in New York State. These laboratories analyze for…

Driven by a passion for protecting natural resources, particularly drinking water, and a longstanding aspiration to work at the Wadsworth Center, Ms. DuBois joined the center in 2008. As the Assistant Director of the Division of Environmental Health…

The Environmental Laboratory Approval Program (ELAP) within the Wadsworth Center provides regulatory oversight of laboratories that test environmental samples collected in New York State.  These laboratories monitor for toxins, harmful…

The Wadsworth Center was prominently represented at the annual Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages meeting (“Phages”) in Madison, Wisconsin – one of the premier international conferences in microbial genetics.  The meeting drew more than…

Boucher LaboratoryHuman fungal infections cause 2.5 million annual deaths yet remain neglected diseases. Our lab studies pathogens in the genus Cryptococcus, which are environmental fungi found in diverse ecological settings worldwide. Cryptococcus…

Wadsworth Center senior scientists Drs. Janice D. Pata, Lili Kuo, and Paul S. Masters are co-authors on a significant new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513552122).…

 The Wadsworth Center’s Bacteriology and Mycology Laboratories brought together laboratorians and epidemiologists from across the Northeast for the Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Lab Network Regional Laboratory and Epidemiology Meeting.…

A new episode of the Inspired to Heal podcast, hosted by Dr. William (Bill) Trick – retired in 2024 after a distinguished career as a clinician, researcher, and CDC epidemiologist – features Wadsworth Center’s Dr. Kimberlee Musser alongside Dr. Don…

The Wadsworth Center has been awarded funding through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) Grant Program’s Antimicrobial Laboratory Network to support antimicrobial-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis activities from August 1, 2025 – July…

Dr. Rajendra Agrawal of the Wadsworth Center was invited to speak at the Ribo25 Symposium (September 18–19, 2025) at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), marking 25 years since the atomic structure of a bacterial…