Linking biological and modeling elements of research on Rift Valley Fever — National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense

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C.J. Peters (UTMB) and David Hartley (Georgetown), principal investigators for the FAZD Center

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The Investigators: Dr. C.J. Peters, University of Texas Medical Branch: John Sealy Distinguished University Chair in Tropical Emerging Virology and the Director for Biodefense in the Center for Biodefense and Emerging infectious Disease at UTMB. Research focus is on Rift Valley fever vaccines and SARS pathogenesis.

Dr. David Hartley, Georgetown University: An expert in infectious disease modeling. He leads a diverse team at Georgetown's ISIS Center that supports the Global Argus Project research and development program. The team concentrates on linguistics, data mining, decision science, data sharing technology, global information systems, and information representation.