Viral Pandemic Working Group, Dissemination and Outreach Subgroup: Possible Liaisons

This is a rough  and preliminary list meant to collect possible organizations, including governmental, educational, industrial, medical and professional, that the Viral Pandemics groups might try to setup a formal liaison with. Suggestions are welcome and can be sent to jsluka@iu.edu.

Last Updated: May 13, 2021

Note the list below is mostly organizations focused on biology. The last section is heavily computational.

1. Covid-19 modeling consortia and groups
   1. Glazier’s model (cf. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.27.064139v1)
   2. Macklin’s Consortium( cf. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.02.019075v3.full )
   3. CovidSim model developed by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London (see also https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-82122/v3 )
   4. Jakob Barhak’s “The Reference Model: An Initial Use Case for COVID-19“ (patented?)
   5. Covid-19 Disease Map, a computational knowledge repository of … https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.26.356014 
      1. presentation to WG by Anna Niarakis Jan. 28, 2021
      2. Includes model and document repositories 
2. Pathogen groups
   1. Center for Global & Emerging  Pathogens (Cleveland Clinic, ask John Rice and Ahmet Erdemir)
3. US Government Agencies
   1. NIH
      1. NIBIB (IMAG/MSM is down at the end)
      2. NIAID
         1. Systems Biology Consortium for Infectious Diseases
            1. Potential source of clinical and laboratory data
            2. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/systems-biology-consortium
      3. Other institutes
   2. CDC
   3. DOD
   4. DHS
   5. NSF
4. NGOs
   1. WHO (mostly government funded)
5. Academic/Professional Groups (associations and societies)
   1. Main virology society?
   2. Not virology focused but still possibly relevant
      1. Society for Toxicology (SOT)
6. Groups, Coalitions, Consortia
   1. Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study MIDAS (NIH funded)
      https://midasnetwork.us/
   2. N3C (Nat. Covid Cohort Collaborative)
   3. Not CV19 or pandemic focused by still relevant
      1. Human Cell Atlas (HCA)
      2. RBK/GUDMAP
      3. HuBMAP
      4. VPH https://www.vph-institute.org/ (EU)
7. Computing and infrastructure groups, organizations and companies
   1. US Government funded
      1. NanoHub (NSF funded computing infrastructure for models, primarily educational)
      2. Center For Reproducible Biomedical Modeling at Univ. Washington (NIH funded) LIAISON: Veronica Porubsky <verosky@uw.edu>
      3. IMAG/MSM
         1. Viral Pandemic (our group)
         2. Public Dissemination and Education (PDE) Working Group
         3. Committee on Credible Practice of Modeling & Simulation in Healthcare
         4. Model and Data Sharing Working Group
         5. Cell-to-Macroscale Working Group
         6. Population and Policy Modeling Working Group
         7. High Performance Computing Working Group
         8. Theoretical and Computational Methods Working Group
   2. OUS
      1. BioModels (repository of computational biology models UK/EU)
      2. Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) EU https://www.vph-institute.org/
   3. Commercial / Private
      1. Google (e.g., Google AI tools and Colaboratory)
      2. Amazon AWS

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