The Present
The Wadsworth Center has over 100 principal investigators and more than 1,000 staff in four locations, the Biggs Laboratory, the David Axelrod Institute, the Center for Medical Science, and, in nearby Guilderland, New York, the Griffin Laboratory. Scientists at the Wadsworth Center study public health issues, such as drug resistance to emerging infections, environmental exposures, and basic biological processes that contribute to human health and disease. Additionally, as the state's public health reference laboratory, the Wadsworth Center is responsible for responding to public health threats, developing methods to detect microbes and genetic disorders, measuring and analyzing environmental chemicals, and licensing clinical and environmental laboratories. In conjunction with the University at Albany, SUNY, the Wadsworth Center has training programs for undergraduates, graduates, and postdoctoral fellows.
The Wadsworth Center Master of Science in Laboratory Science program
Recently, the center developed a new avenue to train the public health laboratory workforce of tomorrow - The Wadsworth Center Master of Science in Laboratory Science program. This new program is slated to have students enrolled in September 2012 and will begin accepting applications in early 2012.
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