NEIDL News

Biosafety Lab Forums Announced

Wednesday, 13 Jun 2007

Please join us for Part I in a series of Educational Forums
Sponsor: the Community Liaison Committee of the Biosafety Lab....

Graduation Ceremony for Citylab Academy Students

Wednesday, 23 May 2007

Boston – Twenty-six Boston residents graduated today from Boston University School of Medicine’s CityLab Academy, a free nine month academic and laboratory skills training program for qualified high school graduates interested in pursuing a career and further education in biotechnology.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Robert Brown, President of Boston University and Karen Antman, BUSM dean and provost of BU Medical Campus addressed the graduates and their families. Beverly Brown, chief development officer of the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, was the commencement speaker.

“Today is a day of celebration. Not only for the 26...

Los Angeles tries to develop a biomedical research campus and looks to Boston for guidance

Friday, 13 Apr 2007

As Los Angeles tries to develop a biomedical research campus in its inner-city area, it can look to a similar successful project in Boston for guidance.

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Smoke Reported at 700 Albany Street

Tuesday, 20 Mar 2007

This message is from Kevin Tuohey, Executive Director, Operations and Public Safety

Monday, March 20, 2007, 3:20 p.m.

At around noon today smoke was reported on the ninth floor of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Research building at 700 Albany Street. Due to the research that takes place there, all appropriate emergency responses were taken. While the incident was confined to a very small area, as a precautionary measure all occupants in the building were evacuated without incident. Traffic on Albany Street is being redirected in some places while emergency responders continue their work.

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A Pitch for the Biolab

Tuesday, 13 Feb 2007

Here in the Athens of America we tend to lose sight of our good fortune from time to time. In the case of the bio-defense laboratory now under construction in the South End - well, leave it to the mayor of a struggling city in upstate New York to point out that some of our fellow Athenians are looking a big, fat gift horse in the mouth.

“You’re fighting over it - and here we are begging for (new job) opportunities,” James Brown, mayor of Rome, N.Y., told the Herald last week. “People don’t want it (in Boston). So why...

Biolab lawsuit leads to new environmental Review

Friday, 09 Feb 2007

A more in-depth environmental review of the BioLab, currently being conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Boston University Medical Center (BUMC) as part of federal court proceedings, will consider the hypothetical risks of placing the BioLab in either Tyngsborough or Peterborough, N.H., according to court filings.

This environmental review will also examine several hypothetical worst-case scenarios that weren't addressed in previous reviews of the BioLab project. New worst-case scenarios considered will include the hypothetical infection of a laboratory worker with Ebola; the transportation of tick-born encephalitis; an aerosol event involving a hemorrhagic fever; and the use...

Boosting Careers, Building Community

Thursday, 25 Jan 2007

As one of the largest employers in the city, Boston University currently has more than 350 jobs available on the Charles River and Medical Campuses and at Boston Medical Center. The University is looking to the local community to fill some of those spots.

An all-BU job fair is being held tomorrow on the Medical Campus, with employment and training specialists on hand to discuss the open positions with the area’s unemployed and underemployed. The last all-BU job fair was held in 2005 and drew more than 400 people interested in what BU had to offer.

“The job fair is intended...

Updated Information Repositories

Thursday, 04 Jan 2007

Updated information on the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) is available at the Dudley, Grove Hall, South End and Central branches of the Boston Public Library. Contents of the library repositories include:

Mass Biotech 2010 Report, Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
NEIDL -Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 10/2004
NEIDL - Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 3/2005
NEIDL - Supplemental Impact Statement, 3/2005
NEIDL - Final Environmental Impact Statement, Vols. I & II, 10/28/05
NEIDL Application & Appendices, 12/2006
BioSquare Phase II - Master Plan for Planned Development Area, 10/21/2003
BioSquare Phase II - Draft Project Impact Report, Draft Environmental Impact Report, Vols. I & II, 9/22/03
BioSquare Phase II - Final...

Tell the Truth

Thursday, 09 Mar 2006

The greatest challenge for high school seniors is to select the college that will most effectively meet their academic and social needs. It is important for educators to facilitate this process.

Fanatical opponents of the Biosafety Lab in the South End believe otherwise. Members of Operation: Over have embarked upon a strategy of disrupting Boston University campus tours for prospective students. Their objective is for high school students and their families to reject admission to the university.

Operation: Over literature asserts, "It's time to stop being polite and hit BU where it hurts: their funding." The reasons they give for...

The BioLab is important for public health

Thursday, 09 Mar 2006

The federal government recently completed the final review necessary on the BioLab at Boston University Medical Center and construction is underway. As a scientist who will work in this facility and as a resident of the South End, I am excited about the potential of this state-of-the-art facility and the prospect that it offers for the development of new vaccines and treatments for some of the most dangerous diseases we face.

The approval process for the lab has taken over three years. During this time many agencies at the local, state and federal government level have rigorously reviewed this project from...