- Collection name: National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses
- Acronym: NCPV
- WDCM number: 814
- Institution: UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
- Address:
Porton Down
Salisbury, SP4 0JG
United Kingdom - Website: https://www.culturecollections.org.uk/about-us/ncpv/
Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: https://www.culturecollections.org.uk/products/viruses/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/NCPV
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/culture-collections - Correspondence data:
E-mail: culturecollections@ukhsa.gov.uk; hannah.mcgregor@ukhsa.gov.uk
Tel.: +44 (0) 1980 612512
Correspondent: Hannah McGregor
Members holdings
Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: animal viruses, bacteriophages.
NCPV preserves well-characterised, authenticated human pathogenic viruses in a secure facility, and supplies them to the scientific community according to national and international guidelines. It currently holds over 400 different strains which are supplied as live frozen virus; irradiated viruses are also available for some strains of Coronavirus and Mpox.
NCPV is one of the four collections (ECACC, NCTC, NCPV and NCPF) of the Culture Collections of the UK Health Security Agency.
Quality Management System
NCPV have a quality management system in place that has been externally assessed to the international standard ISO 9001:2015.