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GVN Announces Two New Executive Appointments
Strategic Focus On Corporate Partnerships, Content Creation and Thought Leadership Baltimore, MD, USA (May 18, 2023) – The Global Virus Network (GVN) recently appointed Andrea Ridenour as Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships & Development and Robert Frederick as Chief Content Officer. “Two of the GVN’s most important strategic priorities are enhancing financial development by…
Read MoreEradicating Polio Will Require Changing the Current Public Health Strategy
Leadership of the Global Virus Network Say Policy Decisions Should Reflect the Science Baltimore, MD, March 6, 2023— The recent public health emergency declarations in New York and London due to polio infections and detection of the virus in these cities’ wastewater strongly indicate that polio is no longer close to being eradicated.Now, four members…
Read MoreGlobal Virus Network (GVN) Adds Brazil’s Laboratory for Clinical Research in Neuroinfections at Fiocruz
Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 1, 2023: The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing 71 Centers of Excellence and 9 Affiliates in 40 countries comprising foremost experts in every class of virus causing disease in humans, and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil announced the addition of the Laboratory for Clinical Research in…
Read MoreGlobal Virus Network (GVN) Leaders Publish STAT Op-Ed with a U.S. Government Call to Action and Road Map for the Future of COVID-19
BALTIMORE, MD, January 31, 2023: STAT today published “How the Biden Administration’s COVID preparedness policies could narrow America’s political divide” co-authored by leadership of the Global Virus Network (GVN), representing 68 Centers of Excellence and 11 Affiliates in 37 countries, and comprising foremost experts in every class of virus causing disease in humans and some…
Read MoreSurge of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in China and USA Further Emphasizes Need for Surveillance, Preparedness, and International Collaborations
BALTIMORE, MD, January 9, 2023: Christian Bréchot, MD, PhD, President of the Global Virus Network (GVN), Associate Vice President for International Partnerships and Innovation at the University of South Florida and Professor of the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine at USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, the GVN Southeast U.S. Regional Headquarters…
Read MoreGVN Statement on SARS-CoV-2 Variant BF7
SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to appear worldwide. There is some concern about the variant BF7, shorthand for BA.5.2.1.7, which reportedly is spreading in China. BA.5.2.1.7 is part of the Omicron lineage of SARS-CoV-2 and had been indicated as a potential variant of concern. Recent data from the US CDC and other agencies in other countries, however, show…
Read MoreGlobal Virus Network (GVN) Announces 2022 Elected Members Of Rising Star Mentorship Program
The eleven awardees will receive training and mentorship to help support and propel their rising careers in virology BALTIMORE, MD, December 6, 2022: The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition comprised of human and animal virologists from 68 Centers of Excellence and 11 Affiliates in 39 countries, today announced eleven members of the 2022 GVN…
Read MoreGlobal Virus Network (GVN) Adds Thailand’s Mahidol University as Newest Member to Combat Viral Threats
Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October 26, 2022: The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing 68 Centers of Excellence and 11 Affiliates in 39 countries comprising foremost experts in every class of virus causing disease in humans, and the Mahidol University in Thailand announced the addition of the Mahidol Virus Network as GVN’s newest Center of Excellence. “We…
Read MoreGlobal Virus Network (GVN) Convenes First-Of-Its-Kind Conference To Evaluate The Public Health Magnitude Of Long-COVID And Define A Global Research Roadmap To Address The Crisis
World Leaders in Science, Healthcare, Academia, Business and Government Discuss Issues and Ramifications of Long Covid Baltimore, MD, USA (July 22, 2022) – The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of world leading medical virology research centers, yesterday concluded a two-day gathering on the ‘Science of Long COVID.’ The first-of-its-kind conference reviewed the wealth of cohort…
Read MoreGVN Convenes First-of-its-kind Conference to Evaluate the Public Health Magnitude of Long Covid
GVN Convenes First-of-its-kind Conference to Evaluate the Public Health Magnitude of Long Covid and Define a Global Research Roadmap to Address the Crisis World Leaders in Science, Healthcare, Academia, Business and Government Discuss Issues and Ramifications of Long Covid Baltimore, MD, USA (July 22, 2022) – The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of world leading…
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