Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories in Boston, Massachusetts, Wins 57.5 Million Dollars in Five-Year Funding: One of Only Two National Biocontainment Labs in the United States
Boston University in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, announced on November 9, 2026, that its National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories has received 57.5 million dollars in new funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The university said the five-year funding will directly support the laboratory operations, including biosecurity systems and biosafety programs, facility maintenance, strict regulatory compliance and oversight, specialized biocontainment training, and advanced technical research support services. The laboratory holds Biosafety Level 4 status, the most stringent containment criteria, and its researchers have advanced studies on Ebola, Marburg, Zika and other priority pathogens. Completed in 2009, it is one of only two national biocontainment labs in the United States. In 2024, the National Institutes of Health awarded the lab 7.5 million dollars to modernize its facilities.
Interim director Robert A. Davey said Americans face a growing threat from new, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, and that the award recognizes the laboratory expertise and its role as a national resource. The university said laboratory scientists have led dozens of studies into disease-causing pathogens, helping spur development of new diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics, with recent projects on how mosquitoes spread disease and how the dengue virus replicates.
The university report also noted an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has infected more than 10,000 people and killed nearly 5,000, and said laboratory researchers have joined an international effort to develop and test a new vaccine. This report covers only the funding facts and institutional information in the university release and makes no individual treatment recommendation.
来源链接： https://www.bu.edu/articles/2026/nih-awards-bu-infectious-diseases-laboratories/
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