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Dennis L. Kasper, executive dean for academic programs in the Faculty of Medicine, says researchers at Harvard hope the facility will help to expedite high-security research, presently competing for accommodation at the nation’s three existing BSL-4 facilities...
...Kasper said he and his colleagues did not know precisely which projects Harvard researchers planned to pursue in the new facility. Projects presently underway will continue to seek research space at one of the existing BSL-4 facilities, rather than waiting five years for the project’s completion, he said...
...projects are just getting off the ground,” Kasper said...
...Harvard first expressed interest in the new facility when BU submitted its proposal last spring. “This proposal was put together by BU. We certainly supported the proposal,” Kasper said, noting that the facility would be vital to the development of vaccines and therapies...
...Kasper said he also foresees collaboration with the other six institutions awarded the NIH grant—Duke University, University of Chicago, University of Maryland, University of Washington, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Washington University in St. Louis and the New York State Department of Health...