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On November 14, 2025, representatives from the Wadsworth Center’s Newborn Screening Program joined faculty, a clinician, and students at the University at Albany’s College of Integrated Health Sciences (CIHS) for the College’s first…

The Arbovirus Laboratory, directed by Dr. Ciota, utilizes a One Health approach to study endemic and exotic mosquito and tick-borne viruses. Research topics include virus discovery and diagnostics, arbovirus evolution, vector-virus interactions…

Climate and Mosquito-Borne Virus Transmission Figure 1. Increased mean temperatures during transmission season are directly correlated to increases in West Nile virus activity in New York State. The arbovirus laboratory estimates prevalence (#…

Top Row: Majie Foster, Kiet Ngo, Anne Payne, Jessica Stout, Sean Bialosuknia, Elyse Banker, Anthony ArancioBottom Row: Laura Munn, Lili Kuo, Alexis Russell, Lindsay Tomaszek, Joesph Maffei, Alexander Ciota, Alan Dupuis, Victoria Schnurr, Hannah…

A complete list of publications from Dr. Ciota can be found here.

A research team at the Wadsworth Center has developed an innovative, environmentally friendly method for extracting trace metals from biological samples without the use of concentrated mineral acids. Led by Dr. George Donati, Deputy Director of the…

The New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center and Division of Epidemiology have been selected to participate in a major multinational study evaluating the effectiveness of a pneumococcal vaccine currently licensed in Europe. The study…

Dr. Arryn Craney serves as the Clinical Laboratory Director at the Wadsworth Center, providing regulatory oversight for clinical testing programs supporting infectious disease detection, newborn screening, and clinical chemistry across multiple…

My lab investigates how the gut microbiome and host co-metabolism of diet and environmental pollutants shape cancer risk and early-life disease. We use untargeted metabolomics, multi-omics integration, microbial culture systems, organoids, and…

Abhishek Jain, PhD, Principal InvestigatorAbhishek Jain completed his PhD at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and postdoctoral training at Uppsala University, Sweden. Formerly a research faculty member at Yale School of Public Health and…

Gut-Liver Metabolic Interactions: Implications for Diet, Pollutants, and CancerThe gut microbiome is a powerful biochemical engine, capable of transforming dietary compounds and environmental pollutants in ways that shape human health. These…

Dr. Jain's full publication listing can be found here.

Wadsworth Center scientist Dr. Kurunthachalam Kannan, Deputy Director of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences (DEHS) and Chief of the Laboratory of Organic Analytical Chemistry, delivered a prestigious invited plenary lecture at the…

On December 3–4, 2025, Dr. Joseph Orsini, PhD, of the Wadsworth Center, participated in the Association of Public Health Laboratories’ (APHL) annual Newborn Screening (NBS) Face-to-Face Committee Meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Orsini serves as…

The Wadsworth Center’s Division of Infectious Disease was prominently represented at the 9th European Study Group for Legionella Infections (ESGLI) Meeting, held in Palermo, Italy, from November 12-14, 2025. Danielle Wroblewski, a scientist in the…

The Advanced Genomics Technology Cluster (AGTC) Core at the Wadsworth Center is continuing to expand its automation capabilities to support both research and clinical sequencing workflows. As part of this effort, hands-on, advanced technical…

The Wadsworth Center’s tuberculosis (TB) testing program for Mycobacterium tuberculosis is among the leading diagnostic programs in the United States and is internationally recognized for its scientific excellence and public health impact. Senior…

For more than 25 years, the Environmental Proficiency Test and Validation Unit (EPTAVU), of the Wadsworth Center’s Division of Environmental Health Sciences (DEHS), produced a comprehensive suite of environmental proficiency testing (PT) samples for…

Dr. Janice Pata, Director of the Wadsworth Center’s Division of Scientific Cores, delivered a virtual seminar to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis on December 9, 2025.…

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has recognized the GUARDIAN study as one of the nine most impactful, newsworthy, or novel research studies published in the past year. This distinction places GUARDIAN among JAMA’s annual “…