The University of Tennessee Health Science Center will build a Regional Biocontainment Laboratory in Memphis, Tenn. Funded by $5 million from the University and a $14 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, the facility will accommodate research on bioterrorism and biotechnology and will be located adjacent to UT’s existing vivarium.
The facility is one of eight regional biocontainment facilities. The other laboratories will be sited at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Duke University in Durham, N.C., Tulane University in New Orleans, the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, the University of Missouri in Columbia, the University of Alabama-Birmingham, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pittsburgh. Two national biocontainment labs will be constructed at Boston University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
