VirusBank Platform

The VirusBank Platform is a research platform at the KU Leuven, founded in 2022 with the financial support of the Belgian Federal government, leveraging Belgiums world-class virology expertise and highly secured research infrastructure that enables automated manipulation and high-throughput handling of pathogenic viruses. The mission of the VirusBank Platform is to better prepare society for future viral epidemics and pandemics. The platform combines a strategic collection of viruses with a state-of-the-art toolbox including but not limited to cellular viral infection assays and animal infection models. It also consists of large libraries of drug-like small-molecules that are essential to help identifying druggable targets in the replication cycle of viral families with epidemic and pandemic potential s and to facilitate drug discovery and development efforts. The VirusBank Platform is open to various forms of collaboration, with the goal of expediting the discovery and development ...