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Current National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBL) and Regional Biocontainment Laboratories (RBL)

Sites and Contact Information

Map of RBL and NBL locations

National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBLs)

Boston University Medical Center
National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL)
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/nbl/
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Klempner

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Galveston National Laboratory
http://www.utmb.edu/gnl/
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stanley Lemon

Regional Biocontainment Laboratories (RBLs)

Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
Regional Biocontainment Laboratory
http://ghrc.colostate.edu/index.asp
Principal Investigator: Dr. William Farland 

Duke University Medical Center (Durham)
Global Health Research Building (GHRB)
http://humanvaccine.duke.edu/modules/
rsch_bldg/index.php?id=1home/index

Principal Investigator: Dr. R.Sanders Williams

George Mason University
George Mason University Biomedical Research Laboratory
http://brl.gmu.edu/
Principal Investigator: Dr. Charles Bailey

Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine (Grafton, MA)
Regional Biosafety Laboratory-New England (RBL-NE)
http://www.tufts.edu/vet/rbl/
Principal Investigator: Dr. Deborah Kochever 

Tulane National Primate Research Center
(Covington, LA)
Regional Biocontainment Laboratory
http://www.tulane.edu
Principal Investigator: Dr. Andrew Lackner 

University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Medicine
Southeast Biosafety Laboratory Alabama (SEBLAB)
http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=61656
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Marchase

University of Chicago
The Ricketts Laboratory
http://www.htrl.uchicago.edu/
Principal Investigator: Dr. Keith Moffat

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Pacific Regional Biocontainment Laboratory
http://www.hawaii.edu/
Principal Investigator: Dr. James R. Gaines

University of Louisville
The Center for Predictive Medicine
http://www.louisville.edu/community/
biosafetylab/

Principal Investigator: Dr. Manuel Martinez 

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark)
New Jersey Medical School Center for Infectious Disease Research—RBL
http://www.umdnj.edu/
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert L. Johnson

University of Missouri-Columbia College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Missouri—Columbia Regional Biocontainment Laboratory
http://www.rbl.missouri.edu
Principal Investigator: Dr. James Coleman 

University of Pittsburgh
The Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the Bioscience Tower III (BST3)
http://www.cvr.pitt.edu
Principal Investigator: Dr. Donald Burke 

University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Memphis)
University of Tennessee Health Science Center Regional Biocontainment Laboratory
http://www.utmem.edu/research/RBL/
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gerald Byrne

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