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Biosurveillance Gateway

Los Alamos capabilities in bioscience support US national security

Our science mitigates biological threats and advances biotechnology to support national security.

Biosurveillance helps detect potential biothreats—in air, soil, plants, animals, food, and wastewater—enabling rapid response. Los Alamos scientists apply their established expertise in environmental surveillance, genomics, bioinformatics, protein engineering, analytics, integrated multi-omics, predictive modeling, and artificial intelligence to protect the nation from biological threats. 

  • Surveillance, Detection and Medical Countermeasures

    Our scientists are creating universal approaches for the discovery and detection of potential biothreats from any environmental sample. Our layered approach spans agent-agnostic surveillance and detection to targeted pathogen analysis to innovative therapeutics and vaccine development.

  • Predictive Modeling

    Los Alamos researchers develop epidemiological models capable of incorporating disease mechanisms from diverse datasets. Our theory and modeling approaches predict disease progression in specific hosts and provide decision makers with validated epidemiological models to support situational awareness, forecast and predict disease spread, and support confident assessments.

  • Biomanufacturing

    In addition to using biosurveillance to detect biothreats, Los Alamos researchers use biomanufacturing to mitigate threats through developing therapeutics, advancing the bioeconomy and securing national security supply chains.

  • Decision Support

    Our scientists are constantly assessing new data streams for surveillance and developing unique bio- and health-informatics and visual analytics platforms. We create reliable, accessible decision support tools by integrating capabilities in disease biology, public health, epidemiology, medical diagnostics, statistical and computational analysis, and database management.

The Lab’s Biosurveillance capability is supported by several groups and divisions

  • Genomics and Bioanalytics Group (B-GEN)
  • Microbial and Biome Sciences Group (B-IOME)
  • Biochemistry and Biotechnology Group (B-TEK)
  • Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (MPA-CINT)
  • High Performance System Integration (HPC-5)
  • Information Science (CAI-3)
  • Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (C-PCS)
  • Statistical Science (CAI-6)
  • Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (T-6)
  • Materials Science and Technology (MST-7)

Contacts

  • Media Contact
  • Nick Njegomir
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  • National Security & Defense Program Manager
  • Nick Generous
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