U of L Receives $22M Grant to Build Biosafety Lab
Posted on: Monday, 21 November 2005, 03:02 CST
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THE University of Louisville is receiving a federal grant of nearly $22 million to build a research lab geared toward developing new vaccines to fight bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases.
The award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, will allow the university to create the Center for Predictive Medicine, a facility that will join a growing number of Level 3 Regional Biosafety Labs being built across the nation.
A dozen UofL scientists are working to determine which genes and proteins keep infectious diseases out of our bodies and which genes and proteins let them in. Eugenia Wang, for example, is studying the flu virus, while Yousef Abu Kwaik is exploring how Legionnaire's disease invades the body. James Graham is investigating how gene expression might offer clues to fighting tuberculosis.
The center, which will be roughly 45,000 square feet in size and will be built on a 4.2-acre tract at the northeast corner of UofL's Shelby Campus, will allow researchers to do their work in a state- of-the-art facility that will be designed and built according to rigorous safety standards. The lab's top-of-theline facilities and new technologies that can be made available to researchers will help them ramp up their efforts to find ways of fighting infectious diseases.
Regional biosafety labs are being built at nine universities: Colorado State University at Fort Collins, the University of Chicago, University o
f Missouri at Columbia, Duke University, Tulane University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Pittsburgh, University of Tennessee at Memphis and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Newark.
Copyright Lane Communications Group, Inc. Oct 01, 2005
Source: Lane Report, The
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