NEIDL in the News
Seeking Additional Members for Community Liaison Committee
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL) at Boston University is seeking additional members from Dorchester, Roxbury, South Boston and the South End to fill positions on its expanded Community Liaison Committee (CLC). More
Residents Voice Anger, Concerns Over BU Biolab
South End Patch 4/20/12 A sizable crowd turned out to oppose the plans to begin Level 4 operations at the South End facility. By Andrew Jeromski Upwards of 100 concerned citizens turned out Thursday night for a public hearing at Roxbury Community College to voice their disapproval and anger over a controversial Boston University... More
Opponents of BU Biolab Voice Concerns About Safety at Hearing
Boston Globe 4/20/12 By Patrick D. Rosso, Town Correspondent, Globe Staff In Video: Opponents of the BU Biolab voice their concerns about lab and its research of Level 3 and Level 4 pathogens. Concerned residents, protesters, and politicians turned out Thursday night to voice their opposition to the Boston University Biolab in the South... More
Residents Oppose BU Biolab for Deadly Diseases in South End
Boston Globe 4/20/12 By Amanda Cedrone Globe Correspondent About 100 people gathered Thursday night for a hearing in Roxbury to voice their disapproval of a controversial Boston University science lab. Area residents filled the Roxbury Community College auditorium, where representatives of the National Institutes of Health listened to concerns over the consequences of allowing the... More
Public Hearing on BU Biolab Set for Thursday Night
Boston.com 4/19/12 By Patrick D. Rosso, Town Correspondent Residents will have their chance to weigh in on Boston University’s disputed research laboratory and on the recently released draft safety report at a public meeting tonight. The 192,000-square-foot, lab was completed in 2008 and resides on the school's South End medical campus. Residents and environmentalists... More
Hurdles Remain For South End Infectious Disease Lab
WBUR 4/19/12 By Bob Oakes (@bob_oakes) and Lynn Jolicoeur BOSTON — The names of deadly pathogens, such as Ebola, anthrax and plague, are enough to make some Boston residents shudder and say, “Not in my backyard.” And at a National Institutes of Health meeting at Roxbury Community College Thursday night, the public will... More
BSL-2 Research to Start at BU Biolab
Initial research to focus on tuberculosis More
NIH Plans Public Meeting to Solicit Comments on Supplementary Draft Risk Assessment for the NEIDL
NIH is accepting public comments on the Draft Supplementary Risk Assessment through May 1, 2012, and is holding a public meeting on Thursday, April 19, 2012, in order to solicit comments only on the Draft Supplementary Risk Assessment. The meeting will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at... More
Iris Scans and Spacesuits: Inside the BU Biolab
By Toni Waterman (from WGBH), January 11, 2012 BOSTON — One of the first things you’ll notice about the highly controversial Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories... a.k.a. the biolab... is that it’s hard to get into. Park in a back lot, go through a security checkpoint, pass along... More
South End Bio-Lab Could Open Soon
By Delores Handy (from WBUR), January 10, 2012 BOSTON — After years of protests and legal challenges, Boston University’s seven-story bio-lab in the South End could open soon. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino led neighborhood and civic leaders on a tour through the building Tuesday. The tour was designed to alleviate safety fears over the... More
Mayor Menino Approves the BU Biolab: Ebola and the Plague Head to the South End
By Lauren Landry (From BostInno), January 11, 2012 The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), better known as the Boston University Biolab, has been controversial from the get-go. Located on the University’s medical campus in the South End, you can guess from the lab’s name alone why people in the... More
A peek inside the BU biolab
By Michael Naughton (From Metro), January 10, 2012 The Boston University biolab has been causing nerves to shake ever since plans to construct the South End facility were announced. Now, as some research is set to begin at the $200 million lab, officials are attempting to soothe the nerves by... More
Inside BU’s maximum-security ‘biolab’
Original video report by Peter Howell (From NECN.com), January 10, 2012 Is the middle of Boston the right place for a laboratory researching some of the world's deadliest bacteria and microbes. Boston University has been arguing for years its maximum security biolab facility will be safe and bring hundreds of jobs. More
Controversial Biolab Set To Open
Boston City Officals Tour BU Lab From WCVB, January 10, 2012 BOSTON -- It's been controversial from the get go. Ever since Boston University revealed plans to do research on the world's deadliest diseases, neighbors of the South End facility have had safety concerns.Now years after debate, it is closer... More
Risk assessment, public meetings on BU biolab in progress
By Emily Overholt (From The Daily Free Press), January 18, 2012 The National Institute of Health will release a draft risk assessment on Boston University’s Biosafety Level-4 laboratory and hold meetings in Boston in the coming weeks for locals to voice comments and concerns about the document, university... More
A look inside BU’s Level 4 Biolab
Original video from WGBH, January 17, 2012. Within a year, Boston University’s controversial BioLab could be operational and host to some of the most dangerous germs in the world. Last week, Boston Mayor Tom Menino led a tour of the South End facility to highlight some of the lab’s safety features.
NEIDL Goes Public
BU biosafety labs offer tours to press, politicians By Leslie Friday (From BU Today), January 26, 2012 John R. Murphy and Ronald Corley may be the most highly educated tour guides in Boston. Murphy, a School of Medicine professor of medicine and microbiology, researches the ways that bacterial protein toxins get into... More
Mayor Menino to lead tour of controversial BU biolab in South End
By Kay Lazar (From The Boston Globe), January 9, 2012 BU Biolab Video Mayor Thomas M. Menino will lead a tour of the Boston University biolab tomorrow, accompanied by two dozen neighborhood and civic leaders, in advance of what’s expected to be the federal government’s final decision on whether... More
BU opens Biolab doors for invite-only tour
By Julie M. Donnelly (From Boston Business Journal), January 10, 2012 Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino led a tour Tuesday of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL), better known as the Boston University biolab. The tour was designed to highlight both the safety features and the prospective economic impact of... More
South End biolab can open, with restriction
By Kay Lazar (From The Boston Globe), December 6, 2011 State environmental officials have granted preliminary approval to allow a controversial Boston University laboratory to open for biomedical research with germs less hazardous than those that sparked opposition to the project. In its decision, the state Executive Office of... More