The Laboratory for Neurological Diseases was founded in October 2000 by funding from the Thai Red Cross Society with the primary missions of diagnosis and treatment of both infectious and non-infectious brain diseases along with the comprehensive development of innovative diagnostics for brain diseases and rabies research. Later, in October of 2008, the centre was appointed by the World Health Organization as the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training on Viral Zoonoses which increased emphasis on wildlife-to-human viral infections and emerging infectious diseases in the realms of diagnosis, research and surveillance. This effort had led to an improvement in the capacity of diagnosing severe emerging disease