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Jens H. Kuhn

Jens H. Kuhn is a Principal at Tunnell Government Services (TGS), tasked as one of two Principal Scientists and the Director of Virology (contractor) at the NIH/NIAID/DCR/Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), a biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) facility in Frederick, MD, USA. Kuhn specializes in highly virulent viral human and animal pathogens. He is the author of “Filoviruses: A Compendium of 40 Years of Epidemiological, Clinical, and Laboratory Studies” (Vienna: Springer, 2008) and contributor to “The Soviet Biological Weapons Program—A History” (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012). His scientific accomplishments can be found at ‪Jens H. Kuhn – ‪Google Scholar.