Mission

The focus of C-GRIID is the development of comprehensive intervention strategies to control and reduce the incidence and severity of infectious diseases in humans and animals world-wide. Within C-GRIID, three programmatic areas have been created:

• Pathogen and Host-Pathogen Interaction. This program focuses on the biology of pathogens and the host response, with the goal to develop intervention strategies that reduce the virulence and life span of pathogens, and that enhance the immune response. These strategies include the development of novel antimicrobials and vaccines.


• Ecology of Pathogens. This program focuses on the biology of vectors, life cycle of pathogens and changes in the environment that lead to increased pathogen exposure. The goal is the develop intervention strategies that reduce pathogen exposure.


• Diagnostics and Health Care Delivery. This program focuses on the development of new diagnostics for early detection and disease monitoring, and on improvements in health care delivery.

Across these programs, training and educational opportunities are available for undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs as well as visiting scientists.