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The Wadsworth Center Fellowship Program Committee hosted the Winter Fellow Research Symposium on January 22, 2026, at the David Axelrod Institute (DAI) and the Life Sciences Innovation Building (LSIB) Collaboratory. Eight fellows representing three…

In January 2026, the Wadsworth Center successfully completed routine federal inspections required under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) across the Biggs Laboratory, Griffin Laboratory, and the David Axelrod Institute (…

Several Wadsworth Center Research Scientists and their trainees attended the 2026 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, held January 10-17, 2026, in Tucson, Arizona. Participants included Drs. Patrick Parsons, George Donati, and Christopher…

To view your laboratory information and verify your CLIA certificate, please utilize the CLIA search lookup tool QCOR found at https://qcor.cms.gov/main.jsp. On the left, please select CLIA Laboratory Lookup.  From there, enter your CLIA number…

A press release from Governor Hochul announces that construction is underway for the new Wadsworth Center laboratory.

The New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center and Division of Epidemiology are collaborating on the investigation of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) outbreak in northern New York State. RSV primarily causes clinically…

For the second consecutive year, scientists from the Wadsworth Center are participating in a community outreach partnership with Rise High, a Schenectady-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program serving students in…

Dr. Abhishek Jain of the Wadsworth Center has been selected to serve as a judge for the Bioanalysis Rising Star Award 2026, presented by Bioanalysis Zone, Taylor & Francis Group. Judges for this award are recognized as leading experts in the…

In October 2023, the New York State Newborn Screening Program launched a landmark one-year pilot study to screen every infant born in the state for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV). The results of this study, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver…

Read the press release New York Expands Global Health Leadership by Joining WHO’s International Response Network.

Dr. Kurunthachalam Kannan of the Wadsworth Center’s Division of Environmental Health Sciences (DEHS) gave the keynote presentation at the SafePlastChem conference, organized by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (…

The New York State Newborn Screening Program at the Wadsworth Center has been selected to participate in BEACONS (Building Evidence and Collaboration for GenOmics in Nationwide Newborn Screening), a national research study evaluating the use of…

Scientists in the Wadsworth Center’s Division of Genetics published a study in the journal, mBio, (DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03445-25) identifying an unknown molecular switch that controls how dangerous Vibrio bacteria transition from acting as individual…

Siân Owen (Principal Investigator)Siân is originally from the UK and is a proud graduate of Cardiff University (BS and Master’s) and the University of Liverpool (PhD). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Baym Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston…

On February 10, 2026, the Wadsworth Center’s Division of Environmental Health Sciences (DEHS) hosted the 2026 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 State/Territory Laboratory Group Meeting at the Biggs Laboratory facility at…

Dr. Thomas Bartlett, a new Principal Investigator in the Wadsworth Center’s Division of Genetics, was invited to present his research at the annual Dartmouth College Microbiology & Molecular Pathogenesis Program (M2P2) Retreat, held February 12–…

Dr. Spencer Bruce, Director of the Bioinformatics Core at Wadsworth, recently presented during the February State Public Health Bioinformatics (StaPH-B) Monthly Call. StaPH-B is a bioinformatics consortium created by subject matter experts…

Dr. Totten is Deputy Chief of the Laboratory of Viral Diseases (LVD) and Director of the General Virology Laboratory (GVL) at the Wadsworth Center. The GVL is responsible for clinical, reference and surveillance testing for viruses and the…

On February 28, 2026, communities around the world observed Rare Disease Day, an annual event held on the last day of February to raise awareness and promote advocacy for individuals living with rare diseases. Globally, an estimated 300 million…

On February 18, 2026, Spectrum News NY1 joined James V. McDonald, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, for a tour of the Wadsworth Center’s Division of Environmental Health Sciences. The visit was part of a feature commemorating…