Statement on NIH Announcement of Blue Ribbon Panel

Boston University Medical Center

For Immediate Release

March 6, 2008

Contact: Ellen Berlin, Director of Corporate Communications

617-638-8491

We welcome the additional study and applaud the creation of the blue ribbon panel of independent esteemed scientists.  We are pleased they will consider all concerns, including the community’s and those expressed by the panel assembled by the National Research Council.  We are confident that the lab will be safe, and this third-party examination is an important step in the public process.

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