# Integrated Support Services Core

> **NIH NIH UC7** · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · 2020 · $2,433,051

## Abstract

Integrated Support Services: Summary
The Integrated Support Services (ISS) Core has been established to provide a number of specialized services
to NEIDL investigators and collaborating scientists to support their research activities. Together, members of
this core provides services needed to foster innovative basic and translational research programs with the
ultimate goal to develop diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines in partnership with biotechnology and
pharmaceutical companies. The ISS Core merges a set of diverse research services into a single unit to better
coordinate activities and technical support for NEIDL BSL-4 investigators and collaborators. The ISS Core will
provide the same services to investigators from other academic and research institutions and private sector
collaborators with NEIDL investigators, in order to expand the breadth of scientific inquiry, and maximize the
use of facilities and support services within ISS. Over time the ISS Core intends to develop new services as
scientific and technologic advances occur. The aims of the core are: 1) To provide highly skilled expertise to
support and facilitate research in BSL-4 containment as required for individual projects; 2) To collaborate in the
development of NEIDL research projects requiring the technical capacities of the Core, and develop new
services in response to evolving scientific needs and/or methodologies to best serve NEIDL investigators and
external collaborators; 3) To develop and refine SOPs for Core capacities and comply with all local, state, and
federal regulations, as well as accreditation requirements in support of NEIDL research; 4) To establish a
library of reagents for research and establish, verify, and in collaboration with the IT Core create and monitor
our inventory of infectious agents for study and prepare and monitor working stocks as necessary: 5) To
recruit, train and retain skilled technical staff and ensure scientific competence and safety of all procedures
carried out by the Core services; 6) To engage with investigators external to Boston University in the planning
and development of research projects that require technical expertise from the Core, and provide training for
international collaborators as required and appropriate.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9939433
- **Project number:** 5UC7AI095321-07
- **Recipient organization:** BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
- **Principal Investigator:** Elke C Muhlberger
- **Activity code:** UC7 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $2,433,051
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-07-07

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9939433

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9939433, Integrated Support Services Core (5UC7AI095321-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9939433. Licensed CC0.

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