NEIDL in the News
Wayne Budd to serve on Biosafety Lab Committee
Boston University Medical Center For Immediate Release - May 23, 2005 Contact: Ellen Berlin, 617-638-8491 ellen.berlin@bmc.org (Boston) - Boston University Medical Center announced today that Wayne Budd, a highly-respected attorney and community leader, has agreed to serve on the Executive Committee of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories Institute (NEIDL Institute). Mr. Budd, a... More
Boston University Medical Center acknowledges receipt of and concurs with some aspects of the recent Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) allegations
Boston University Medcial Center For Immediate Release - May 9, 2005 Contact: Ellen Berlin, Director of Corporate Communications 617-638-8491 Boston University Medical Center acknowledges receipt of and concurs with some aspects of the recent Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) allegations on the incident involving the researchers infected with Tularemia last year. The proposed... More
Boston University Medical Center wholeheartedly endorses the recommendations of the Boston Public Health Commission
Boston University Medical Center For Immediate Release - March 28, 2005 Contact: Gina M. DiGravio, (617) 638-8491 Boston University Medical Center wholeheartedly endorses the recommendations of the Boston Public Health Commission that resulted from its investigation of a tularemia incident that occurred at one of BUMC's laboratories last year. The Commission’s report is consistent... More
RENOWNED SCIENTIST TO LEAD TULAREMIA RESEARCH AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Boston University Medical Center For Immediate Release - February 25, 2005 Contact: Rob Brogna, 617-638-8491 robert.brogna@bmc.org (Boston) – Renowned research scientist Dr. John R. Murphy has been named the Principal Investigator of a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study tularemia, it was announced today by Boston University Medical... More
NIH to Prepare Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for BUMC Biosafety Lab
Boston University Medical Center For Immediate Release - February 3, 2005 Contact: Stephen McGettrick, 617-638-8491 (Boston) – To respond to comments on the draft environmental impact statement, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently decided to prepare and issue a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) as part of the National Environmental... More
Boston University Medical Center hosts First Annual Job Fair
Boston University Medical Center For Immediate Release - January 26, 2005 Contact: Gina M. DiGravio, 617-638-8491 gina.digravio@bmc.org Boston -- More than 400 job seekers recently attended Boston University Medical Center’s (BUMC) first annual job fair. Representatives from Boston Medical Center, Boston University Medical Campus, Boston University, and CityLab Academy were present to discuss all... More
Zoning Commission Board Approves BioSquare II and Biosafety Lab
Boston University Medical Center January 12, 2005 The Boston Zoning Commission Board approved the Boston University Medical Center’s BioSquare II project during a meeting held today. The BioSquare II project includes the Biosafety Laboratory. The Zoning Commission approval is the final city regulatory approval needed before construction can begin. BioSquare II includes the... More
Boston Redevelopment Authority Board Approves Biosafety Laboratory
Boston University Medical Center December 15, 2004 Following a significant public outreach and review process, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) Board granted final approvals for the Boston University Medical Center’s BioSquare Phase II project, that includes a biosafety level 4 laboratory. The Board vote represents a significant milestone and one of the... More
MA Office Of Environmental Affairs Approves Biosafety Lab
Boston University Medical Center November 17, 2004 The Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs has approved the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) submitted for Boston University Medical Center’s BioSquare Phase II. This approval means that the state has determined that in the BioSquare II project no further environmental review is necessary under Massachusetts... More
The proposed site for the lab
Boston Courant November 12, 2004 After months of controversy over the potential dangers of studying the world’s deadliest diseases in a proposed South End laboratory, last week the city addressed a more benign aspect of the project: its landscaping. The South End Landmark District Commission told the lab’s architects that their designs were... More
BU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AWARDED MORE THAN $1.3 MILLION TO EXPAND ITS CITYLAB PROGRAM
Boston University School of Medicine For Immediate Release - November 10, 2004 Contact: Kristen Perfetuo, 617-638-8491 kristen.perfetuo@bmc.org (Boston)- Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) CityLab is one of seven fiscal year 2004 Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA) to receive more than $1.3 million from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to increase and... More
BUMC donates 48 refurbished computers to seven local community and civic organizations
Boston University Medical Center For Immediate Release - October 20, 2004 Contact: Ellen Berlin, 617-638-8491 ellen.berlin@bmc.org Boston University Medical Center (BUMC) has donated 48 refurbished computers to seven local community and civic organizations. The organizations receiving the computers are: South End Neighborhood Health Center, South End Neighborhood Baseball, M.E.T.C.O., Roxbury Boys and Girls Club, More
BU details security for planned biolab
Boston Herald October 14, 2004 A proposed laboratory where researchers would develop vaccines to combat bioterrorism would have a state-of-the-art security system to prevent leaks and attacks on the South End compound, a hospital official said yesterday. Smaller, regional biosafety labs already exist in Atlanta, San Antonio and Winnipeg, and there has never... More
BOSTON UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION JOB TRAINING INITIATIVE
Contact: Rob Brogna, 617-638-8491, Robert.brogna@bmc.org Susan Elsbree (617) 918-4426(Boston) –Boston University President Aram V. Chobanian and Mayor Thomas M.Menino announced today that Boston University will fund a $1 million job traininginitiative to provide biomedical research and biotechnology job training to approximately 100 Boston residents. This new initiative will prepare Boston residents... More
Boston University Announces $1 Million Job Training Initiative
South End News August 17, 2004 by Chris Orchard Boston University President Aram V. Chobanian and Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced today that Boston University will fund a $1 million job training initiative to provide biomedical research and biotechnology job training to approximately 100 Boston residents. This new initiative will prepare Boston residents... More
Editorial; A valued new neighbor
Boston Herald April 22, 2004 The national bioresearch lab proposed for Boston University Medical Center has been the victim of a raging outbreak of that most infectious of diseases - ignorance. It's one thing to be afraid of that which we don't know. That's natural. It's another to simply ignore the facts. And... More
Support Spreading For Proposed Biolab
Boston Courant April 11, 2004 Advocates of a proposed infectious diseases laboratory in the South End finally turned out in support of the controversial facility, outnumbering and cheering louder than the lab’s opponents at a public meeting last week at Boston University (BU). “We were pleased to see that level of support. It... More
Key US figure boosts BU biolab plan
Boston Globe February 24, 2004 The federal government's chief of infectious disease research declared his unwavering support yesterday for Boston University's plan to build a laboratory equipped to study the deadliest biological agents in the world. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said in an interview that the project should move forward even in the... More
NIAID Funds Construction of Biosafety Laboratories
NIH News - National Institutes of Health For immediate release - September 30, 2003 Contact: NIAID Press Office - (301) 402-1663 niaidnews@niaid.nih.gov The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced funding for the construction of two National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBLs) and nine Regional Biocontainment Laboratories... More
BUMC Seeks City & State Approvals For Biosquare II
Boston University Medical Center January 30, 2003 Boston University Medical Center filed plans last week with the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to seek final city and state approvals to build a new Biosafety Laboratory at its BioSquare complex in the South End. In 2003, Boston University Medical Center was... More