On 17-19 May 2017, 2nd China-U.S. Workshop on the Challenges of Emerging Infections, Laboratory Safety and Global Health Security was co-organized by U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), CAS and Hubei Society for Microbiology. More than 100 experts from China, the United States, Pakistan and the Republic of Kenya attended the w...
In 2017, WIV has been approved 2 program applications from CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI). Under these programs, two international scientists will come to WIV for carrying out collaborative researches. As a distinguished scientist under PIFI, Prof. George R. Stark Lerner from Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic will visit the Research Group of Prion Cell Biology le...
The application of the Intergovernmental Project of National Key Research and Development Program (“European Virus Archive goes global”) submitted by Prof. Zhihong Hu in Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has been approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). The project funding is 368.82 million.
On Feb. 23, French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve visited Wuhan National Biosafety Level 4 (P4) Laboratory in Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which was his first stop in Wuhan. More than 100 people from different administrative entities including CAS, China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chi...