NIBSC Centre for AIDS Reagents supporting coronavirus and malaria research

Coronavirus

The NIBSC Centre for AIDS Reagents (CFAR) repository is further expanding its remit to support research on SARS-CoV-2 by providing a selection of viruses, plasmids, cell lines, recombinant proteins and antibodies.

View our COVID-19-related research reagents

We are continuously sourcing, producing and characterizing new high-quality research reagents which are quickly made available to the scientific community. A characterised stock of the B.1.1.7 lineage variant of SARS-CoV-2 is currently in production and will be available to researchers within the next 3 weeks. Additional variants, including the 501.v2 will also be available shortly.

Malaria

Additionally, a large collection of malaria reagents has recently been deposited at CFAR for onward sharing by Dr Anthony Holder from the Crick Institute. These include antiserum, monoclonal antibodies, parasites and plasmids.

Further information

To find out more about the materials in our pipeline, to suggest new materials or to donate reagents, please contact cfar@nibsc.org.