On 21 May 2017, Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) held the “Open Lab Day” event. More than 50 children visited to learn the knowledge about virus. The event aims to open doors to the public and engage children with the virus world. The visitors first came to the Virus Specimen Museum of China (VISM). The explainers introduced various common viruses and their...
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.
