Partners, networks and organizations
The European Mobile Lab Consortium
The consortium brings together partners with experience in diagnostics and research on infectious disease pathogens. Some of the partner institutes operate high containment laboratories. (Please klick on the logos to access the partners websites.)
EMLab and it`s missions are funded by:
- The European Commission, EuropAid - DG Developement and Cooperation (DEVCO)(EC) IFS 2011/272-372 and FED 2015/372 - 110 period of 2011 - 2016.
- The German Federal Ministry of Health - Bundesgesundheitsministerium (BMG): Global Health Protection Program from 2016 (GHPP).
- The German Federal Foreign Ministry - Auswärtiges Amt (AA): Funding of EMLab missions.
- The European Commission, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG-ECHO): Mission co-funding for transport.
Implementing partner - partner for Nigeria - EMLab Coordination:
- Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (BNITM)
Partners in Sub-Saharan Africa:
- Institute for Lassa Fever Research and Control (ILFRC), Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria (ISTH)
- National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (NIMR)
Technical implementation of the laboratory units and training:
- Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany (InstMikroBioBw)
Implementing partner for Tanzania:
- Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive "L. Spallanzani", Rome, Italy (INMI)
Partners in Europe:
- Institute for Virology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany (PUM)
- Laboratoire P4 Inserm Jean Merieux, Lyon, France (INSERM)
- Spiez Laboratory, Spiez, Switzerland (Labor-Spiez)
- Public Health England, Microbiology Services Division-Colindale, London, UK, and Microbiology Services-research (Porton), Salisbury, UK (PHE)
- National Centre for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary (NCE)
- Robert Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany (RKI)
- Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia (IMI)
Further organizations relevant to the project:
- The World Health Organization (WHO)
- Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN)
- European Union, EC - DG - ECHO (ECHO)
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Other networks for infectious diseases research and diagnostics:
- European Network for Diagnostics of "Imported" Viral Diseases (ENIVD)
- European Network of P4 Laboratories (ENP4Lab)
- European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents (ERINHA)
- European Virus Archive (EVA)
- Quality Assurance Exercises and Networking on the Detection of Highly Infectious Pathogens (QUANDHIP)