Vision

Provide leadership in investigating and defining mechanisms of disease caused by highly pathogenic infectious and environmental agents to improve global health and commitment to under-served populations.

Mission

We will accomplish our vision through:

• pathology-based training of future scientists
• cutting-edge mechanistic multidisciplinary research
• development of state of the art diagnostics for emerging and re-emerging threats
• development of countermeasures to fight infectious disease and environmental toxins
• integrative development of complementary scientific expertise
• training in state-of-the-art biocontainment facilities
• disease modeling in arthropod and vertebrate models