Organizations

The Galveston National Laboratory is an academic research center at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Utilizing the unique resources of our BSL2, 3 and 4 laboratories, the GNL’s renowned scientists work collaboratively, both locally and internationally, tackling some of the world’s most pressing health concerns. With strengths in aerobiology, assay development, experimental pathology, imaging, insectary services and preclinical studies, we advance local discoveries on the diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccines for the infectious diseases impacting global health like tuberculosis, West Nile virus, Ebola, Marburg, plague, encephalitis, influenza and a host of others.

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.