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...Biosecurity Level 4 (BSL-4) facility—a set of maximum-security laboratories where work will include vaccine research in space-suit-like costumes—was accepted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The laboratory, slated for completion by 2008, will be built in Boston’s South End from about $120 million in NIAID grant funding...
...approval of this project coincides with a new wave of funding for biosecurity-related research at Harvard. The Medical School received $45 million from the NIH early last month to establish a new biodefense research center. Another $15 million grant to fund a Center of Excellence in Complex Biomedical Systems Research followed a week later for the Bauer Center for Genomics Research...
...addition to the two new national centers, the NIH is endowing nine new regional laboratories. This flurry of research funding comes in the wake of pressure from Washington—through the president’s Project Biodefense and similar initiatives— to strengthen biosecurity research programs in the face of national security concerns...
...It’s really doing what we wanted to do anyway, and we’re fortunate that what we wanted to do is closely aligned with what the NIH wants people to do,” she said. “So it was a good match...
...This grant from NIH is gratifying not only in its generosity, but in its recognition of the particular merits and promise of the Bauer Center,” he said in the release. “That this hive of minds, creatively connected across the disciplines, can apply itself to the critical questions in biomedical research today, is encouraging for our future and a mark of our institutional commitment to scientific research more broadly...