About the Virology Quality Assurance Program

The goal for the VQA program is to promote effective assay procedures and increase data integrity within collaborative studies. The VQA program works to ensure the validity and comparability of data obtained across sites by providing laboratories with proficiency testing and assay run controls.

The VQA program is led by Thomas N. Denny, Professor of Medicine, Chief Operating Officer of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) and Principal Investigator of the VQA Central Laboratory - the Immunology and Virology Quality Assessment Center (IVQAC). The VQA program's co-investigator is Maria Blasi, PhD.