TheCentre International de Recherche en Infectiologie is an academic and research institute based inLyon, France.
The CIRI is composed of 22 teams gathered behind one goal: the fight againstinfectious diseases (which is the second cause of death worldwide) by "promoting in-depth conceptual and technological advances through approaches that span from fundamental to clinical/applied research." The key areas of expertise of the CIRI teams arebacteriology,immunology andvirology.[1]
The CIRI contains aBiosafety Level 4 laboratory.[2]
The CIRI was created in 2013 by theInserm, theCNRS, theENS de Lyon and theUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in partnership with thePasteur Institute, theMérieux Foundation, theVetAgroSup and theHospices Civils de Lyon.[1]
A BSL-4 laboratory at theWuhan Institute of Virology received significant and substantial support of the conceptual, engineering and logistical varieties from the CIRI. The WIV BSL-4 facility was commissioned in February 2015.[2]
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