Boston / Massachusetts / United States
Located in Boston, Channing Laboratory is a multidisciplinary research division of Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School. It is a laboratory that offers researches on various topics, such as infectious and chronic diseases, bacteriology, virology and epidemiologic. The laboratory s bacteriology research program delineates and creates strategies for the prevention of infection, such as vaccines, by defining the pathogenic basis of bacterial diseases. Its epidemiology section offers various programs, including nurses health studies, chronic respiratory diseases, metals epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology. The epidemiology program includes the study of risk factors of chronic diseases, such as cancer and diabetes. Its virology program studies the molecular mechanisms by which viruses cause persistent infections and human cancers.
