Researchers at the virology laboratory are active in several international scientific networks, such as the American Association for Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), the International the Society of Blood Transfusion, and the Transplantation Society (TID-TTS).
IMT-SP is member of the NIH Center for Tropical Disease. The Institute participates in the NHLBI REDS study on blood safety and sickle cell disease, and is part of the Zika Alliance. Recently, IMT-SP was awarded a large grant from MRC (UK) and FAPESP (Brazil) together with the University of Oxford/Birmingham and Sao Paulo State Secretary of Health on Arboviruses.
IMT-SP is conducting a large cohort study on dengue and ChikV, along with bioMérieux, to discover biomarkers of the severity of arbovirus infections.