The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is a virology research institute under the Wuhan Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Located in Jiangxia District, Wuhan, Hubei, it was founded in 1956 and opened mainland China's first biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory in 2018. The institute has collaborated with the Galveston National Laboratory in the United States, the Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie in France, and the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada. The institute has been an active premier research center for the study of coronaviruses.
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Inception
- 1956, December 1956
- Website
- http://www.whiov.cas.cn/, http://english.whiov.cas.cn/
