Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and the Southern Research Institute have patented compounds reported to be useful for the treatment of alphaviral infections.

In his lab in Purdue’s Department of Biological Sciences, Kuhn studies specifically RNA viruses, particularly those spread by mosquitoes and ticks, including alphaviruses like chikungunya and eastern ...

Griffin joined Johns Hopkins in 1970, where she completed groundbreaking research in virology and was founding director of ...

The main goal of this project is to develop novel nucleoside and nucleotide inhibitors directed against Alphaviruses. There is a very important need for the development of treatments against these ...

Alphaviruses are circulating in the Central, South and North Americas and cause periodic, extensive equine epizootics and epidemics of encephalitis with frequent lethal outcomes and neurological ...

Commonly used vectors include poxviruses, adenoviruses and alphaviruses. Recognized as foreign ‘invaders’ by the body, they generate strong immune responses. Although this is desirable in the ...

Future Virology. 2008;3(2):179-192. Although not listed as a hemorrhagic fever virus, illness caused by CHIKV can be confused with diseases such as dengue or yellow fever, based on the similarity ...

U.S. Consul General in Toronto, Baxter Hunt, visited Western on Oct. 31, highlighting strong connections with students, scholars and research agencies.