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Core Competencies

• Diagnostic virology
• Basic virology
• Translational virology
• Public health virology
• ‘One-Health’ concept in virology
• Anti-viral research
• Virology education

Collaborations

• Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA and Public Health England (PHE), Colindale, UK
• UKIERI grant between Virus Reference Department of Public Health England (PHE), England, UK and School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
• Laboratoire de Virologie / EA 3610,?Institut Hippocrate Parc Eurasanté et CBP,?Université Lille 2, Faculté de Médecine et CHRU Lille