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No-cost products

Need resources for insect vector research? Ask Infravec!

  • The European Commission has funded the Infravec as part of the ISIDORe umbrella consortium with 10M€ to distribute key research.
  • The Infravec Products catalog contains over 175 resources for vector research provided at no cost to you.
  • Push your vector research faster, in more novel directions: Synergize your existing research funding with no-cost resources from Infravec!
  • Shop the Infravec online Products store. “Pay” for your order with a brief scientific justification, evaluated by a selection committee.

How to request Infravec-ISIDORe products at no cost?

This is now a two-step process.

The first step is a pre-application to ISIDORe directly.

  1. Search the Infravec Product catalog on this website for the resources you need.
  2. Once you have identified what you need, you will pre-apply through the ISIDORe call
  3. Complete the appropriate pre-application on to the ISIDORe website for the resource you would like:
  4. Once your pre-application has been processed, you will receive an email with your ISIDORe ID number.

The second step is the full application on the Infravec website.

  1. Return to the product(s) you selected and place them in your Infravec Shopping Cart.
  2. Register as an Infravec & complete the full application, including your ISIDORe User ID.
  3. Finalise your order by uploading a brief disease-based justification for the product, access and/or services, describing:
        • Technical quality
        • Expected scientific outcomes
        • Capacity building for you and/or your institute

Can I order more than one product at a time?

Yes, if your scientific project requires more than one Infravec product, we encourage you to request the different products in the same order, justified with a single scientific proposal. You may order vectors, services and/or facility accesses together if they are necessary for your project. For example, you may request vectors with your gene of interest silenced, infected with a pathogen, and transcriptional response analysed by RNAseq, or many other possibilities.

To do order multiple products, simply add them to your cart, select the appropriate number of units, then go to the checkout form to submit your project.

Who is eligible for no-cost access?

  • Researchers worlwide
  • You need to work in a country different from the Infravec product provider (country is indicated in the “Additional information” tab of the product pages).
  • To request a product from the country where your laboratory is located, you will need to form a User-group in which a majority of the members are not in the provider country. Please see the instructions about why and how to form a User-group.

What products are available?

  • All major vectors infected with all major arboviruses as well as Plasmodium falciparum; custom conditions including time after infection, dissected tissues, RNA or DNA extracted; Wild-collected samples; Live colonies of many species; Access to unusual vector species.
  • Access to powerful technology platforms such as vector deep-sequencing, bioinformatics, up to 100,000 mass-reared mosquitoes, high-throughput screening technologies, and tools to study insecticide resistance.
  • Physical access to state-of-the art insectaries to perform your experiments in vector infection with CL2/CL3 pathogens (arboviruses, P. falciparum); insect behavior and electrophysiology; insecticides; and state-of-the-art training.

What conditions are attached to no-cost Infravec products?

  • You own the data that you generate, and products that you create using Infravec-provided resources.
  • You agree to submit appropriate data to a relevant repository, and to acknowledge Infravec-ISIDORe in publications.
  • Unless otherwise noted, all Infravec products are shipped at Containment Level 1 as non-infectious material.

How will my request be evaluated?

You need other virus resources for your research? Request them from the European Virus Archive goes global (EVAg). Eva Global is also a participant in ISIDORe.