Resources for Researchers
NIAID offers many resources to support your research, including reagents, model organisms, and tissue samples, to name just a few. Use the filters under Filter Search Results to narrow your search, or simply enter specific search terms in the search field.
BEI Resources Repository
The BEI Resources Repository is a central repository that supplies organisms and reagents to the broad community of microbiology and infectious diseases researchers. Materials are available through an online catalog.
Biocontainment Laboratory: Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) is part of a national network of secure facilities studying infectious diseases that are—or have the potential to become—major public health concerns
Biocontainment Laboratory: Colorado State University Infectious Disease Research Center
The Colorado State University Regional Biocontainment Laboratory is one of the NIAID-supported Regional Biocontainment Laboratories.
Biocontainment Laboratory: Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Human Vaccine Institute
The Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) Regional Biocontainment Lab (RBL) is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories.
Biocontainment Laboratory: George Mason University National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases
The George Mason University National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases Biomedical Research Laboratory (BRL) is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories. The RBL supports research programs in the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases focusing on host resp
Biocontainment Laboratory: Rutgers University
The Rutgers University Regional Biocontainment Laboratory is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories. The RBL is a highly secure facility designed to provide an ultra-safe work environment for scientists and support staff, as well as the public at large.
Biocontainment Laboratory: Tufts University
The Tufts New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory (RBL) is one of the NIAID-supported Regional Biocontainment Laboratories.
Biocontainment Laboratory: Tulane University
The Tulane University Regional Biosafety Laboratory (RBL) at The Tulane National Primate Research Center is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories.
Biocontainment Laboratory: University of Alabama at Birmingham Southeastern Biosafety Laboratory Alabama Birmingham (SEBLAB)
The regional biocontainment laboratory at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), called Southeastern Biosafety Laboratory Alabama Birmingham (SEBLAB), is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories.
Biocontainment Laboratory: University of Chicago Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory
The University of Chicago Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory (HTRL) is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories. The HTRL is a state of the art BSL-3 facility constructed to support research on bacterial and viral pathogens.
Biocontainment Laboratory: University of Louisville Center for Predictive Medicine (CPM)
The Regional Biocontainment Lab (RBL) at the Center for Predictive Medicine is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories.
Biocontainment Laboratory: University of Missouri Regional Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research (LIDR)
The University of Missouri Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research (LIDR) is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories.
Biocontainment Laboratory: University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh Regional Biocontainment Laboratory is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories.
Biocontainment Laboratory: University of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) is one of the NIAID-supported Biocontainment Laboratories.
Biocontainment Laboratory: University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston National Laboratory
As one of two National Biocontainment Laboratories constructed under grants awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health (NIAID/NIH), the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) enables progress in our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms u
CEIRS-generated Reagents
NIAID CEIRS provides the BEI Resources Repository with high-priority reagents from the CEIRS community. Reagents include plasmids, antibodies, proteins, and virus isolates. Reagents not available through BEI can be requested on this page.
Chicago Center for Functional Annotation (CCFA)
The Chicago Center for Functional Annotation (CCFA) is defining gene function on multiple scales, using a multi-disciplinary set of cellular, genetic, molecular, and biochemical approaches.
Functional Lists of Unknown TB Entities (FLUTE)
FLUTE is a Functional Genomics Center funded by NIAID, with the goal of discovering the roles of genes from Mtb with previously unknown functions. In addition FLUTE aims to establish an efficient pathway for identifying gene function that could serve as a paradigm for other bacterial species.
Genomic Centers for Infectious Diseases (GCID) Resources
The GCID use and develop or improve innovative applications of genomic technologies, such as RNA sequencing and metagenomics, and provide rapid and cost-efficient production of high-quality genome sequences of microorganisms, invertebrate vectors of infectious diseases, and hosts and host microbiomes. Multiple strains and isolates of specific microbial species, populations and communities have been and continue to be sequenced.
Human Tissue and Organ Research Resource (HTORR)
The Human Tissue and Organ Research Resource (HTORR) program provides normal and diseased human tissues to investigators at research centers. HTORR supports the procurement, preservation, and distribution of human tissue and organs for basic and clinical research. While the resource maintains a
Immcantation Portal
The Immcantation framework is developed as a start-to-finish analytical ecosystem for large-scale characterization of B cell receptor (BCR) and T cell receptor (TCR) repertoires from high-throughput adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing (AIRR-seq) datasets.
NIAID Microbiome Program: Gnotobiotic Animal Facility
The Gnotobiotic Animal Facility houses purchased experimental mice in experimental isolators that serve as important resources for researchers studying the microbiome. The mice in this facility are germ-free, i.e., born and raised in absence of live microbes.
NIAID Microbiome Program: Sequencing
NIAID’s microbiome sequencing facility studies the structure and function of the microbiome associated with various hosts and body sites. This facility has one dedicated team and is equipped with an Ilumina MiSeq, which can sequence whole genomes or specific amplicons.
Orfeome
The Orfeome Project is part of the NIAID-supported Functional Genomics Program.
SOPs for in vitro Culture System for Cryptosporidium
NIAID-funded researchers at ATCC and Tufts University have developed SOPs for creating continuous in vitro culture systems for the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium.