Apr 12, 2018 | Publication
A new study from VHFC researchers provide validation for a new rapid diagnostic test for Lassa fever. It is difficult to distinguish febrile illnesses that are common in West Africa from Lassa fever based solely on a patient’s clinical presentation. In this study, the... 
Mar 26, 2018 | Press release
VHFC partner, Zalgen Labs LLC (Zalgen), a biotechnology and diagnostics company focused on high-impact, neglected infectious diseases including Lassa fever (LF), today announced that The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Zalgen a Phase I grant to advance... 
Mar 12, 2018 | Publication
A team of scientists at led by Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Institute has published a study that presents detailed clinical and laboratory data for Nigerian patients with Lassa fever. The authors did a multi-year large-scale retrospective, observational cohort study of... 
Feb 27, 2018 | Press release
With a new $15 million grant, VHFC scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) are gearing up for an in-depth study of survivors of viral outbreaks. The grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will... 
Jul 12, 2017 | Press release
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University more than $12 million to test a promising drug treatment against Lassa fever and develop a vaccine against the deadly disease endemic in parts of West Africa. The NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and... 
Jun 5, 2017 | Publication
A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, California has published a study that shows the structure of the viral machinery that Lassa virus uses to enter human cells. The TSRI team, led by VHFC researcher Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire,... 
May 29, 2017 | Publication
Members of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium recently published a series of papers that show how Zika virus spread across South America, the Caribbean, and into the United States. The researchers used sequencing technology to collect genomic data that allowed... 
May 23, 2017 | Publication
In a Comment article published in the scientific journal Nature, Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire and colleagues outline how a collaborative strategy among researchers can speed up the discovery of treatments for diseases such as Ebola and Zika. Dr Ollmann Saphire shares... Dec 13, 2016 | Press release
Zalgen Labs LLC (Zalgen), a biotechnology and diagnostics company focused on high-impact, neglected infectious diseases, today announced the launch of a new web-based marketplace to further affirm the Company as the global leader in e-commerce for hemorrhagic fever...Dec 6, 2016 | Press release
Tulane University School of Medicine immunologist Robert Garry has been named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 “Global Thinkers of 2015” for his groundbreaking work developing a rapid Ebola test. Each year Foreign Policy selects the leading global thinkers whose...