Research
With research expertise in 11 different thematic areas, the CeZAP affiliated faculty tackle comprehensive and complex problems in infectious diseases through interdisciplinary team approaches including engineering, social, biomedical, veterinary, medical, and plant sciences.
The CeZAP faculty conducts basic and mechanistic research in infectious diseases, and strives to translate into tangible results such as vaccines, antimicrobial drugs, intelligent infrastructure, and diagnostics that benefit the global society.
Through pilot grant programs, CeZAP promotes cross-disciplinary and new scientific collaborations to position Virginia Tech to become more competitive in acquiring large federally-funded center, program, and training grants.
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Interdisciplinary Team-Building Pilot GrantsThe Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens (CeZAP) at Virginia Tech awards Interdisciplinary Team-Building Pilot Grants to build interdisciplinary research teams in the broad area of infectious diseases, leading to collaborative extramural grant submissions. These pilot grants are supported financially by Fralin Life Sciences Institute and Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Thematic AreasWith research expertise in 11 different thematic areas, the CeZAP affiliated faculty tackle comprehensive and complex problems in infectious diseases through interdisciplinary team approaches including engineering, social, biomedical, veterinary, medical, and plant sciences.
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COVID-19 Research & OutreachCeZAP faculty affiliates continue to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through research, education, and outreach activities, including developing vaccines and antivirals, studying the biology of the virus, providing undergraduate and graduate course lectures on COVID-19, and educating the public about aerosol transmission, vaccine, and public health measures in a large number of news media such as CNN, CBC, and NPR, etc.
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PublicationsCeZAP affiliated faculty publish hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles annually including many published in Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Communications and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.