The Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV) has been established by the

Government of Kerala Government of Kerala is the subnational government of the Indian state of Kerala. The government is led by a chief minister, who selects all the other ministers. The chief minister and their most senior ministers belong to the supreme decision ...

through Kerala Biotechnology Commission (KBC) of Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) on the wake of the 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala. The institute is located in the

Bio 360 Life Sciences Park Bio 360 Life Sciences Park is a Biotechnology and Life Sciences park in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Established in 2013, by the Government of Kerala, the Phase I of the park is spread over . An additional of land is being u ...

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

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. The foundation stone of the IAV was laid on 30 May 2018 and inaugurated on 9 February 2019. The institute is also affiliated to the

Global Virus Network The Global Virus Network (GVN) is an international coalition of medical virologists whose goal is to help the international medical community by improving the detection and management of viral diseases. The network was founded in 2011 by Robert G ...

(GVN). The institute will be hosting the following divisions; Clinical virology, Viral diagnostics, Viral vaccines, Antiviral drug research, Viral applications, Viral epidemiology, Vector dynamics and public health, Virus genomics, Bioinformatics & statistics, and General virology.

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