Collaborations
Battelle's Medical Research Evaluation Facility (MREF)
The Rapid Response to Biological Agents Focus Frea is teaming with Battelle's Medical Research Evaluation Facility (MREF) to extend biosignature discovery studies in biological agents using a common pathogen model. PNNL currently uses in-house a non-pathogenic strain of Francisella, and through the MREF collaboration, sterilized biological samples derived from pathogenic strains of Francisella have been made available, to extend PNNL's work to microbes of direct interest to national security and homeland defense. Dave Wunschel is the PNNL principal investigator.
