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.
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.
Core Services—Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
The core services group at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF‑Frederick) provides cell culture, hematology, hemostasis, clinical chemistry, microbiology, and molecular virology support for monitoring animals in infectious disease studies.
Electron Microscopy (EM)—Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
The electron microscopy laboratory at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF‑Frederick) has a variety of capabilities for the analysis of biological samples at an ultrastructural level.
HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN)—Scholar Awards
HVTN provides structured mentorship and project funding to investigators working on HIV vaccines.
HPTN Scholars
The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) offers two scholarship programs for early-career investigators funded through a supplement from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
Imaging Sciences—Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
Diagnostic and molecular imaging are important components of research studies, as they provide real-time, longitudinal, structural, and functional insights into disease processes that cannot be obtained by other laboratory tests.
NIAID Bioinformatics Portal
The portal brings together some exciting features including: links to BCBB’s training resources; a section of scripts, code, and programs created by NIAID researchers downloadable from GitHub; and a curated calendar of events with entries focused on bioinformatics and computational biology.
Simian Vaccine Evaluation Units (SVEUs)
The SVEU provides the nonhuman primates for studies to evaluate candidate SIV or HIV vaccines.
SimpleITK
SimpleITK is a simplified programming interface to the algorithms and data structures of the Insight Toolkit (ITK). It supports interfaces for multiple programming languages including C++, Python, R, Java, C#, Lua, Ruby and TCL.
Wake Forest Primate Studies Core
This core serves as a national resource following the specific priorities of the NIAID Radiation and Nuclear Countermeasures Program.