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States Vie for Bioterrorism Defense Lab
Ten states are bidding to become the home for a planned $450 million U.S. bioterrorism defense laboratory that would study threats to humans and the food supply, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Feb. 21). Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Texas have all submitted bids to the Homeland Security Department. Agency spokesman Larry Orluskie said more bids might be coming. He said that a list of finalist would be revealed this fall, with environmental assessments to follow in 2007. “I would assume that almost everyone is responding to this,” said Art Norris, formerly of the National Center for Toxicological Research. Norris helped draft a proposal for the facility to be built in Pine Bluff, Ark. The groups that submitted proposals are all affiliated with universities. In addition, some are partnered with research facilities, government agencies and private life-sciences companies. “Everyone is trying to assemble that kind of expertise,” sad Keith Nichols, a spokesman for North Carolina State University, the lead school in a partnership with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University (Associated Press/Biloxi Sun Herald, April 3).
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