Institut Pasteur du Laos
$3,043,737.17 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- Weapon Threat Reduction Program
- Recipient country
- Laos
- Fiscal year
- 2022-2023
- Agreement period
- February 1, 2023 – April 30, 2026
- Reference
- dfatd-maecd:064-2024-2025-Q2-00475
Published purpose
This project supports a collaboration with Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory to reduce risks and threats posed by emerging infectious zoonotic diseases in the Lao People's Democratic Republic and globally. Project activities include: (1) establishing a biosafety office within the Institut Pasteur du Laos; (2) delivering training and mentoring of Laotian scientists; (3) developing an inventory of previously undiscovered animal-borne viruses of security concern; (4) developing a database of zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential; and (5) publishing research papers on the risks and conditions that enable the interspecies transmission of zoonotic viruses.
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