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CUBRC’s Center for International Science and Technology Advancement (CISTA) supported the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biotechnology Engagement Program (BTEP) from 2005 through 2007. HHS developed this State Department-funded program to engage Russian and Eurasian former weapons scientists in collaborative research on high-priority public health problems. CUBRC provided project managers and administrative support for projects and engagements in Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. Project topics covered included HIV vaccine development and epidemiology, Influenza surveillance and diagnostics, Tuberculosis diagnostics, vector borne disease, botulism countermeasures and prevention, counterfeit pharmaceutical detection, and rabies control. Topics for workshops and training sessions CUBRC conducted included bioethics and internet resources for scientists. For HHS, CUBRC conducted a program wide evaluation spanning over 60 projects and over 7,000 pages of technical and financial documentation.
 CUBRC supported the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Biological Weapons Proliferation Prevention Program – now the Biological Threat Reduction Program for its Collaborative Biological Research (CBR) program from 2003 to 2006. DTRA initiated this program to engage Russian and Eurasian former weapons scientists in collaborative research on biological defense topics of mutual interest. CUBRC provided project managers and administrative support for CBR projects and engagements in Russia. Project topics included smallpox antiviral compound development, aerosol delivery of therapeutic, neutralizing antibodies, and research on select agent organisms such as Antrhax, Plague, and Tularemia. Other activities conducted for DTRA included drafting of bioethics and biosafety training materials, and development of concepts and plans for pathogen strain collection cataloging at several research institutes engaged by the program.
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