The advISO Project – Towards accreditation of pathogen genomics and bioinformatics

Peter Van Heuseden, Dr Dominique Anderson and Prof. Alan Christoffels hosted members of a multi country project called the advISO project, an initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust.

The project began in 2024 and is intended to run for four years. At this stage, having run its course halfway , the members of the consortium were hosted at the University of the Western Cape from the 8th until the 13th of October 2026.

The project included pilot sites in Africa and in Asia, that would implememnt the toolkit that was built for this project, intended to assist public health laboratories, towards accreditation for their services that include pathogen genomics and bioinformatics.

The collaborators involved in this project include Public Health Wales, Cardiff University, the Wellcome Sanger institute, the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, the Central Public Health Laboratory in Uganda, The MRC in the Gambia and the National Institute for Communicable Disease South Africa.