CUBRC’s Center for International Science and Technology Advancement (CISTA) is a team of highly motivated scientific experts and administrative professionals who provide a broad range of services, specifically in the area of international research program management, as it relates to chemical and biological weapons nonproliferation and threat reduction, public health, and biosafety and biosecurity.

The CISTA staff has a broad range of experience performing and managing collaborative research programs and has worked with many federal agencies including DoD, USAID, NIH, and USDA. CUBRC also has significant experience working and collaborating with academic institutions on a wide range of research initiatives, and also frequently engages industry partners to pursue its work in these areas.

This diverse group of subject mater experts provides customers with unsurpassed breadth and depth of technical support in areas including:
 

• Immunology and Molecular Biology
  
• Microbiology and Parasitology
  
• Category, Select and Emerging Infectious Diseases
  
• Animal and Plant Biology
  
• Synthetic Chemistry and Agent Chemistry
  
• Geographic Information Sciences & Epidemiology
  
• Biological Containment Procedures & Engineering
  
• Threat Agent Detection/Modeling
  
• Consequence Management and Risk Assessment
  
• Chemistry of Biologically Active Compounds
  
• Technical and Financial Program Management

Our staff also has multilingual capabilities.

The CUBRC Center for International Science and Technology Advancement is located in Washington, D.C.