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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.

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CeZAP Thematic Research Areas

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.

Thematic Areas

  • Antimicrobial Countermeasures (vaccine and drug)
  • Computational Biology and Disease Modeling
  • Ecology and Epidemiology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Human Dimension of Infectious Diseases
  • Immunology
  • Pathogen Identification and Disease Diagnostic
  • Public Health and Clinical Microbiology
  • Vector Biology and Vector-borne Diseases
  • Zoonotic Diseases

Interdisciplinary Team-Building Pilot Grants

CeZAP awards Interdisciplinary Team-Building Pilot Grants to build interdisciplinary research teams in the broad area of infectious diseases. These grants 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.

CeZAP Annual Infectious Diseases Research Symposium

The annual CeZAP Infectious Diseases Symposium is a great opportunity for faculty and students to network and learn about the outstanding infectious disease research being performed at Virginia Tech. At each annual symposium we hear from faculty, students, and other renowned guest speakers about their research and future plans. From poster presentations, keynote sessions, breakout sessions, and more, this event is full of learning opportunities and scientific fun.

  • Save the date - the 2026 Annual CeZAP Infectious Disease Research symposium will be October 30, 2026

Publications

CeZAP affiliated faculty publish hunderds of peer-reviewed scientific articles annually including many published in Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Communications and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

Pathogems Podcast

Pathogems is an infectious disease podcast created by Aryn Wright, Caroline Clark, and Avery Kaye, first-year PhD students in the CeZAP ID-IGEP program.  We invite professors, graduate students, and others here at VT to chat about their research experiences, while also trying to make science more fun.

  • The goal is to make scientific communication more approachable and to build community within CeZAP and beyond!

COVID-19 Research and Outreach

CeZAP faculty affiliates were active in responding 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 he public about aerosol transmission, vaccine, and public health measurers in a large number of news media. 

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