VIASEF is the new infrastructure of the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

The Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHMT-NOVA) inaugurated last June the “VIASEF-In Vivo Arthropod Security Facility”, a new scientific infrastructure that is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) within the scope of the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap . The inauguration was attended by the Vice-President of the FCT Board of Directors, José Paulo Esperança.

VIASEF, located on the premises of IHMT-NOVA, consists of a high-security infrastructure (ACL3), which offers the academic, scientific and business community the possibility of developing “in vivo” studies with native, invasive, exotic or transgenic arthropods, vectors of pathogens that cause human diseases.

This infrastructure also provides safe laboratory conditions to develop projects with human pathogens (vector-borne or otherwise), including those classified as level 3 biological risk (e.g. chikungunya virus, corona, or multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains).

More information on the IHMT-NOVA page