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Nathan Wolfe
Dr. Nathan Wolfe serves as the Principle Investigator for all research projects in all sites.  His research utilizes a non-traditional approach to conducting biomedical science.  Instead of having a single centralized laboratory where studies are conducted, multiple field based laboratories and study populations are developed and repositories are created from these collections.  Collaborations are then created with some of the best laboratory groups in the world (all self-supported) focused on specific techniques or groups of infectious agents allowing us to examine the broadest possible range of agents from the highest quality field sites.  Doctoral students in Dr. Wolfe’s group generally develop projects that involve both field and laboratory components, with postdocs conducting a variety of either field or laboratory studies.
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Cameroon The Wolfelab has been working in Cameroon for over 6 years, collaborating with the Johns Hopkins Cameroon Program and Care and Health Program.  The largest team of the Wolfelab sites, the Cameroon team has a variety of research activities that vary from HIV testing, to avian influenza surveillance, to animal blood spot collections.  The Cameroon team is complete with an on-site animal and human laboratory.  more

Democratic Republic of Congo The Wolfelab collaborates with Dr. Anne Rimoin on the projects being implemented in the DRC.  Dr. Rimoin directs an epidemiologic study of human monkeypox and has established a research site in central DRC which now serves as the headquarters for a variety of studies of cross species transmission of disease. The project collaborates closely with the DRC Ministry of Health and has offices in Kinshasa at the National Laboratory and in central Congo in Lodja, the administrative capital of the Sankuru District in the Kasai Oriental. more

Madagascar The team in Madagascar is headed by Christopher Golden, of Berkley. more

Paraguay The team in Paraguay is headed by Dr. Ana Magdalena Hurtado of the University of New Mexico. more

China Our collaborations in China inlcude the Guangdong Entomological Institute/South China Institute of Endangered Animals, the South-China Primate Research & Development Center and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Guangdong Province (CDC GD).  Our team in China works throughout the Guangdong province and surrounding areas to collect both animal and human samples that reflect our target of highly exposed populations. more

Malaysia The sites and team in Malaysia will be supported by, and made up of persons from The Ministry of Health, Malaysia (MOH, Malaysia), the National Public Health Laboratory of Malaysia (NPHL), The Department of Orang Asli Affairs in Malaysia, the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and The Consortium for Conservation Medicine. more

Laos The team in Laos is headed by Dr. Paul Newton of the Microbiology Laboratory in Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane. more