{"57351":{"#nid":"57351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Kosal delivers Synthetic Smallpox Workshop Keynote Address","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDue to the stock for the smallpox virus being inaccessible to all but a handful of authorized personnel in the US and Russia, the threat of smallpox as a biological weapon has seemed remote.  However, current cutting-edge biotechnology has made the de novo (from scratch) synthesis of smallpox  and potentially any virus a possibility that requires further research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Margaret Kosal joined a team of experts at an invitation-only workshop in June entitled, \u003Cem\u003EOver the Horizon Synthetic Smallpox:  Now What?\u003C\/em\u003E  The workshop was sponsored by ASCO, the Advanced Systems \u0026amp; Concepts Office of the Defense Threat Research Agency, and included representatives from US government agencies and laboratories, the World Health Organization, Interpol, and the World Bank.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETopics considered included the role for deterrence, current international and global security arrangements, the role of the US government is guiding the discussion, and possible paths forward to close gaps in the current countermeasures.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Kosal delivered the keynote address, \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/flyers\/Kosal_The_Day_Before_After_June09.pdf\u0027\u003EDeterrence, Policy, and Strategic Security Implications of Synthetic Smallpox\u003C\/a\u003E, at the \u0022Over the Horizon Workshop on Synthetic Smallpox\u0022 discussing the potential strategic implications of the genetic manipulation or de novo synthesis of orthopox viruses as a \u0022game-changer\u0022 for national and international security.  \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The threat of smallpox as a biological weapon is not as remote as it once seemed.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Workshop sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)"}],"uid":"27184","created_gmt":"2009-07-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:46","author":"Jene Gladstone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57352":{"id":"57352","type":"image","title":"Professor Margaret E. Kosal","body":null,"created":"1449175327","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:07","changed":"1475894342","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:02","alt":"Professor Margaret E. Kosal","file":{"fid":"190598","name":"tev51728.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tev51728.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tev51728.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10622,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tev51728.jpg?itok=_Z0eEG_N"}}},"media_ids":["57352"],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4049","name":"ASCO"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"922","name":"Kosal"},{"id":"167279","name":"smallpox"},{"id":"4048","name":"workshoop"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAngela Levin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECISTP\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=al101\u0022\u003EContact Angela Levin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3199\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Angela.Levin@inta.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}