George Mason University

National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases
The Center’s mission is to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, environmental policy, and international affairs intersect.” A component of the Belfer Center, “the International Security Program…has a vigorous research program that focuses on important contemporary security issues as well as their historical and conceptual foundations. In recent years, ISP has engaged in major research projects on topics such as reducing the threat from ‘loose nukes’ in the former Soviet nuclear arsenal [and] controlling chemical and biological weapons.

Website:
http://ncbid.gmu.edu/