¶ Global Viral
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Global Viral, formerly the Global Viral Forecasting Institute (GVFI), is an American not-for-profit organization based in San Francisco, California. Metabiota is its for-profit sister company.[1]
¶ History
The Global Viral Forecasting Institute was founded in 2007 by Nathan Wolfe.[2] It received seed funding from Google and the Skoll Foundation in 2008.[3]
¶ Organization
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nathan Wolfe | Founder | Metabiota |
| Daniel Bausch | Partner | Tulane University |
| Charles Chiu | Lab partner[4] | Center for Next-Gen Precision Diagnostics |
| Peter Daszak | Partner (United States) | Consortium for Conservation Medicine |
| Eric Delwart | Lab partner | Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) |
| Joseph DeRisi | Lab partner | University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) |
| Jonathan Epstein | Partner (China, United States)[5] | Consortium for Conservation Medicine |
| Tony Goldberg | Lab partner | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Christopher Golden | Partner | University of California, Berkeley |
| Tom Hughes | Partner (China) | Consortium for Conservation Medicine |
| Magdalena Hurtado | Partner | University of New Mexico |
| Fabian Leendertz | Lab partner | Robert Koch Institute |
| Ian Lipkin | Lab partner | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health |
| Don Melnick | Partner | Columbia University |
| Martine Peeters | Lab partner | Research Institute for Development |
| Oliver Pybus | Lab partner | University of Oxford |
| Forest Rohwer | Lab partner | San Diego State University |
| Peter Simmonds | Lab partner | University of Edinburgh |
| Thomas Smith | Partner | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| William Switzer | Lab partner | National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) |
| Linfa Wang | Lab partner | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) |
¶ Partners
Organizations partnered with Global Viral include:[5:1]
- Care and Health Program (CHP)
- Columbia University
- Consortium for Conservation Medicine
- East China Normal University (ECNU)
- Guangdong Entomological Institute
- Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Johns Hopkins Cameroon Program
- Kinshasa School of Public Health
- Mahosot Hospital
- National Public Health Laboratory Malaysia
- South China Primate Research & Development Center
- Tulane University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- University of New Mexico
¶ Funding
Sponsors of Global Viral include:[6][4:1][5:2]
- Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Fogarty International Center (FIC)
- Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS)
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
- National Geographic Society
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Naval Health Research Center (NHRC)
- Skoll Foundation
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Wellcome Trust
- W.W. Smith Charitable Trust
¶ External links
Hope, B. (2015, May 20). Virus Hunter Metabiota Finds Niche in Epidemic Research. Wall Street Journal. http://archive.today/2021.12.23-055051/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/virus-hunter-metabiota-finds-niche-in-epidemic-research-1432155621 ↩︎
Walsh, B. (2011, October 28). Virus Hunter: How One Scientist Is Preventing the Next Pandemic. Time. https://web.archive.org/web/20221002023926/https://time.com/3782263/virus-hunter-how-one-scientist-is-preventing-the-next-pandemic/ ↩︎
About Global Viral. Global Viral. Retrieved October 13, 2012, from http://archive.today/2012.10.13-210754/http://globalviral.org/about.php ↩︎
Partners. Global Viral Forecasting Institute. Retrieved February 4, 2011, from https://web.archive.org/web/20110204054522/http://www.gvfi.org/partners.html ↩︎ ↩︎
Partners. Global Viral Forecasting Institute. Retrieved September 20, 2008, from https://web.archive.org/web/20080920131935/http://www.gvfi.org/partners.html ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Sponsors. Global Viral. Retrieved October 14, 2012, from https://web.archive.org/web/20121014152811/http://globalviral.org/sponsors.php ↩︎