Emerging and re-emerging viruses are a continuous and evolving challenge in the field of public health. These viruses have the potential to cause significant outbreaks, disrupt communities, and strain healthcare systems. Understanding their characteristics, origins, and mechanisms of spread is crucial for effective preparedness, response, and containment strategies.

As time goes by, our lab is working on various projects mainly focused on pathogenesis, vaccines, antivirals and antibody testing. In the last three years, we have mainly been working on SARS-CoV-2 and together with our collaborators we have developed interesting and highly effective bi-specific antibodies or antibodies against cold epitopes on the spike protein.

But we were also active in the pre-covid era. We have described a new bat-borne hantavirus (BRNV - Brno virus = Brno is the city where we are located :-) ), whose research is still ongoing, or we have worked on rabies virus and Zika virus. More recently, we have been working on the monkeypox virus, and together with our collaborators, we have investigated a temporal transcriptome profile of MPXV and host cells using ONT.

And since viruses are always one mutation ahead, there is still something to do...