Severe acute respiratory syndrome
He was involved in the development of the ViroChip, which is used to rapidly identify viruses in bodily fluids. It was used to help identify the Severe acute respiratory syndrome virus in 2003. He has also been involved in the development of an online platform called IDseq, backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, which is used to identify viruses from metagenomic sequencing data.