Project Update

• 2008-01-01: Project start.
• 2008-02-15: Kick-off meeting held at Vironova AB.
• 2008-02-28: PhD student for the project started at CBA.
• 2008-03-05: Project presentation held at Swedish Emergency Management Agency (KBM).
• 2008-03-05: First report delivered to VINNOVA.
• Washington, DC, USA, 2-5 June
  Vironova presented the project at the 2008 Homeland Security Science & Technology Stakeholders Conference
  Ronald Reagan International Trade Center.
• Munster, Germany, 9-11 June
  Vironova presented PanViruShield AT THE EDA (European Defence Agency) Symposium
  “Biological Detection Identification Monitoring Capability Development – Industrial Perspective”, Bundeswehr Research Institute for Protection Technologies – NBC Protection (WIS).
• Washington, DC, USA, 23-26 September
  Vironova presented its detection technology and PanViruShield at the HHS (US Dept. Human Health and Services) Public Health emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Stakeholders Workshop & Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Industry Day.
• 2008-10-03: Second report delivered to VINNOVA (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems).
• 2008-11-14: Project presentation at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration.
• 2008-11-15: Third report delivered to VINNOVA
• Presentation at ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting, Feb 22-25, Baltimore, Maryland.
• 2009-03-05: Project presentation at MSB (former KBM).
• 2009-03-10: Fourth report delivered to VINNOVA.
• Presentation at the Swiss–Swedish Workshop on Technologies for Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection, March 19-20, 2009 at CSEM in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• Presentation at the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis (SSBA'2009) March 19-20, Halmstad, Sweden.
• Presentation at the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2009) June 15-18, Oslo, Norway. For paper abstract and reference see "Scientific Publications" under downloads, (link). 
• Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)-Europe Meeting, June 28 - July 1 2009, Karlstad, Sweden.
• Presentation at the 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2009) September 16-18, Salzburg, Austria. For paper abstract and reference see "Scientific Publications" under downloads, (link). 

Coming activities

• 2009-10-13: Oral project report at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration.
• 2009-10-15: Fifth project report to VINNOVA.
• 2009-12-01: Project presentation at FOCUS Workshop on Security Research, Linköping, Sweden.