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 science and technology program management services of international scope. The program areas covered for our clients to date spans chemical and biological weapons nonproliferation and threat reduction, public health, and biosafety and biosecurity.

CUBRC’s 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 has significant experience working and collaborating with academic institutions on a wide range of research initiatives, and also frequently engages industry partners to implement programs.

Our diverse group of subject matter expert personnel and consulting partners 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
• Science Communication and Health Education
• 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

We also maintain multilingual capabilities for successful program implementation with international partners and stakeholders.