University of California-Irvine’s high-containment, biosafety level 3, training laboratory has been selected as the third facility in the country designated by the National Institutes of Health’s National Biosafety & Biocontainment Training Program to provide continuing education to professionals in a simulated setting.
The first two facilities are at Kent State University and Kansas State University.
Research and development involving many of the special laboratory facilities are considered a front line in training efforts to contain infectious diseases.
The National Training Center designation was announced last week. The lab is the first of its kind in the country designed and built for educational purposes.
The designation allows UCI to conduct NIH-sanctioned courses for biocontainment facilities and operations personnel in a safe environment.
—Deirdre Newman
